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.
Buy a carbon offset.
ask the private jet owners to be net zero
Net zero is a scam. Business class is the only way to fly sheeple.
Great for shareholders who want companies to stop wasting money by flying to meetings that could be over the phone, not great for the execs who think that their personal charisma is what drives company profit
good tired of drivers subsidizing air travel
Business flights are unnecessary in most cases.