TheGBTA Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Global Business Travel Association, has unveiled findings from itsSustainability Acceleration Challenge, an industry-first global benchmarking initiative evaluating the current state of business travel programmes and the actions being taken by organisations to decarbonise them.
The findings reveal that organisations have much work to do to accelerate the integration of practices if they are to materially reduce their business travel emissions in line with corporate nett-zero targets to be reached by 2050.
TheGBTA Sustainability Acceleration Global Benchmark , developed in collaboration with IT and Management Consultants,Accenture, ranks the current state of climate action on a maturity score of 0-5, with 0 denoting no activity and 5 denoting leading practice action to mitigate business travel emissions.
As of 2024, the first baseline year for the Challenge, the overall global sustainabilitymaturity score across all industry sectors stands at 1,3 out of 5.
This demonstrates that while some action is being taken and planned, there is an urgent need to turn commitments into real impact.
