sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020-3de40f9797c26857.pdf

This September 2020 report by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) provides practical guidance for organizations to track, report, and reduce business air travel emissions. Based on the TR2AIL project, which involved interviews at SEI and the University of East Anglia, the document outlines strategies for setting emissions targets, implementing decision-support tools, and fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes lower-carbon travel alternatives.

• Business travel emissions are often excluded from corporate inventories because the GHG Protocol Corporate Reporting and Accounting Standard classifies them as "Scope 3" (corporate value chain) emissions, making their reporting optional rather than required.
• Aviation emissions are highly unequal; in 2018, global aviation caused 2.6% of all CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, but 90% of these emissions were generated in upper middle-income or high-income countries, while only about 20% of the global population had ever flown by 2016.
• Organizations can set either absolute targets (total reduction in tons of CO2 equivalent) or intensity targets (reduction relative to a metric like turnover or employee count). Intensity targets are easier to compare across organizations but may be viewed as less ambitious than absolute targets because they can allow total emissions to increase.
• To reduce emissions, some institutions have implemented strict travel thresholds. For example, University College London’s Geography department discourages domestic flights, and Ghent University refuses reimbursements for flights if the destination is reachable via ground transport in the same time or under six hours.
• The TR2AIL project is developing a prototype tool, expected by the end of 2020, to help users calculate trip emissions, track their travel history, set annual targets, and use a decision tree to determine if and how to travel.
• Structural and cultural barriers hinder the reduction of business travel, including the perception of frequent flying as a marker of professional success and the higher cost and complexity of booking international rail travel compared to flights in Europe.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020-3de40f9797c26857.pdf. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020-3de40f9797c26857.pdf. n.d. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendseireportpreparelandingsavvidousep20203de40f9797c26857pdf, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020-3de40f9797c26857.pdf}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sei-report-prepare-landing-savvidou-sep-2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }