On the road to net zero with the GBTA Foundation
The GBTA Foundation has unveiled its Sustainable Business Travel Transition Pathway.
While business travel is a $1.48 trillion industry, playing a critical role in the global economy, it also contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, making it a key focus area for corporate sustainability efforts.
As regulations change and companies commit to emissions reduction goals, integrating sustainability into business travel is no longer optional – it’s a necessity.
The transition pathway, developed in collaboration with Accenture, aims to support efforts by organizations of all sizes and in all geographies, to start, advance and accelerate their sustainable travel practices.
It will also directly help companies participating in the GBTA Sustainability Acceleration Challenge improve their travel program’s maturity levels and sustainability score with a 2030 horizon.
For each of the four categories of action and fifteen practices outlined in the toolbox, the pathway details iterative steps organizations can take to advance from wherever they stand in their journey to ‘leading practice.’
Organizations can understand how their progress is being measured by reviewing the scoring methodology developed by Accenture. They can also benchmark themselves based on the current state of the industry. Finally, next steps highlight how to get leaders invested despite the variety of headwinds facing travel sustainability in 2025.
Delphine Millot, Senior Vice President, Advocacy and Sustainability, GBTA, and Managing Director at the GBTA Foundation, explained that: “Even in times of economic uncertainty and a changing political climate, one thing remains certain: sustainable business is good business.”
Millot continued: “The transition pathway provides companies across the world with the insights and tools needed to embed sustainable travel practices at every level of their operating model.”
Dr. Jesko-Philipp Neuenburg, Global Travel and Aviation Sustainability Lead at Accenture, said that: “The road to decarbonization is a generational challenge, and the business travel sector can help lead the way. Through our work with GBTA and insights from over 240 companies, we’ve built a practical and adaptable pathway to give businesses at any stage the toolkit to help decarbonize their travel. Securing the sustainability results we need will require action and momentum from all players through the rest of this decade.”
Go to www.gbtafoundation.org for more.
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