How to reduce your carbon footprint as a travelling professional?

The guide outlines six strategies for travelling professionals to lower their environmental impact, ranging from choosing sustainable accommodations and reducing waste to opting for slow travel and telecommuting. It emphasizes that individual actions by high-ranking professionals can create a 'ripple effect' and prompt broader organizational shifts toward sustainable travel policies.

• Professionals can reduce their travel-related carbon footprint by adopting six specific behaviors, ordered from easiest to most impactful: selecting sustainable accommodations, reducing waste and meat consumption, choosing economy class or electric vehicles, opting for trains or buses over flights, using carbon offsets for unavoidable travel, and evaluating the necessity of the trip itself to prioritize telecommuting.
• Individual eco-conscious behaviors, especially when modeled by senior leadership, can influence colleagues and leverage the buying power of professionals to shift entire industries toward greener practices.
• The document suggests that professionals should move beyond individual actions to embed sustainability into organizational structures, such as by including sustainable travel mandates in employment agreements or developing formal company-wide sustainable travel policies.

APA

Benson, P. K. G. P. R. (2020). How to reduce your carbon footprint as a travelling professional? World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-as-a-travelling-professional/

Chicago

Benson, Petros Kusmu, George Patrick Richard. How to reduce your carbon footprint as a travelling professional? World Economic Forum, 2020. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-as-a-travelling-professional/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{benson2020how, author = {Benson, Petros Kusmu, George Patrick Richard}, title = {{How to reduce your carbon footprint as a travelling professional?}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2020}, month = feb, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-as-a-travelling-professional/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }