Coinciding with Earth Month, the GBTA Foundation report showcases collective best practices and insights from leading companies taking action on Scope 3.6 emissions for greener corporate travel As companies strive to reduce their carbon footprint, they are implementing various strategies to decarbonize their employee travel. But which practices are effective in driving change and ultimately…
GBTA Advocacy Round in Brussels – March 2023 On 27-29 March 2023, a delegation of GBTA staff and European members1 gathered in Brussels to advocate for the unique priorities of the business travel sector. The group initiated and attended sixteen meetings with policymakers, trade associations, and subject matter experts over the course of three days….
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, welcomes the adoption of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to create new, detailed sustainability reporting requirements and significantly expand the number of European and non-European companies subject to the European sustainability reporting framework. The CSRD will replace the existing…
Last week hundreds of stakeholders from the global industry gathered in Brussels for a pair of back-to-back GBTA events – the Sustainability Summit and the Europe Conference with VDR – as together we continue to set the agenda and create the platform for the many voices within our sector. The GBTA Sustainability Summit centered around…
Amex GBT’s Global Business Consulting team has published a white paper designed to help travel managers find strategies and solutions to decarbonise their travel programmes. The report, entitled 5 Steps to Reduce Emissions from Business Travel, looks at understanding this challenging journey, from conversations to data-driven business strategies. It covers a range of measures including…
High-level event brings together almost 300 global experts, travel industry, and policy leaders to outline solutions to decarbonize business travel aligned with Paris Climate Goals Brussels (9 November 2022) – An acknowledgment of urgency, value of collaboration, and the need for concrete action were the pervasive drivers of GBTA’s first Global Sustainability Summit yesterday which…
How Do You Transform An Industry? One Person at a Time. Today we step into November – for many of us the next few weeks will be busy and productive ones as we wrap up 2022 and move our focus to the year ahead. But it’s also a not-to-be-missed opportunity to reflect on how much…
GBTA boosts its mission with a commitment to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance partnership, and the upcoming Sustainability Summit in Brussels. The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and its charitable arm, the GBTA Foundation, announced today new developments in its commitment, partnering, and programming in sustainability to empower the global business…
Putting Words Into Action for Sustainable Business Travel We are all systems go for Brussels! Demand is high for our Sustainability Summit on November 8. And for the European Conference November 8-10, with attendees from more than 24 countries already registered – that’s twice as many buyers signed up now as attended our Berlin event…
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to propose a harmonised framework for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, called CountEmissionsEU. With GBTA members making it a priority to reduce the carbon footprint of their business travel, emissions data is…
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