Companies have started to launch ever more inventive ways to cut back on air travel
To do its bit to tackle climate change, the company has decided that in 2022, its greenhouse gas emissions from air travel should be half what they were in 2018.
Everyone’s emissions are being monitored and very frequent flyers need to be on guard. “If one employee were to travel like mad then we would spot that,” Reto Schnarwiler, Swiss Re’s head of group sustainability, told me. Also, there would probably be “a discussion with that individual.”Article content
The team had planned to meet in Bangladesh this year but instead everyone went to Zurich. “The number of long-haul flights to Bangladesh and back didn’t warrant an internal group meeting,” says Katrine DiBona, Novo Nordisk’s head of sustainability, explaining some people were already in Zurich. “For example, if they are booking a flight which is returning on the same day, we start to nudge them to turn the meeting into a Teams meeting rather than a physical one,” says Steve Varley, EY’s global vice chair for sustainability. Or take the train instead.
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