The launch of "Workspace CO2 emissions was made official on 9 December by Egencia. The aim is to support companies on their journey towards sustainable business travel. This new tool takes the form of a dashboard calculating the emissions generated by the company for each trip.aerial and thehotels. The shutter rail will be booked at the beginning of the year 2020according to the roadmap unveiled by the business travel agency. This Workspace CO2 Emissions can also be coupled with Egencia Analytics Studiothe data processing tool launched by Egencia in August 2018. Travel managers will now be able to manage a sustainable travel policy with greater precision, using a data processing solution. reporting for example, to encrypt and compare CO2 emissions by route, by service and even by passenger. It is then up to the company to take the appropriate measures to reduce its impact, and Egencia has already suggested a number of avenues, such as increasing fare ceilings to allow travellers to favour direct flights or eco-responsible hotels. "With its CO2 Emissions Workspace, Egencia puts customers in the driver's seat, providing intuitive, on-demand analysis to identify and correct their carbon impact today, and uncover opportunities for future transformation."says Tristan Smith, Vice President of Customer Success at Egencia.
This type of innovation should help to 'decarbonise' a business travel ecosystem that has certainly become aware of the environmental challenges, but is struggling to move from theory to practice. Indeed, just a few days before this announcement, SAP Concur and GBTA published a study pointing to the lack of focus on environmental issues in travel policies in Europe. According to the survey, while more than 70 % of travel managers believe that it is important to give travellers the means to encourage more environmentally-friendly travel, less than a third of them (31 %) include in their policy the use of suppliers who are concerned about the impact of business travel on the environment. And this criterion is only mandatory in 4% of cases...
