environment

Air France-KLM is serious in its fight against global warming. The Air France-KLM Group and its airlines are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aviation fuel by 30% per revenue/tonne/kilometre (RTK) by 2030 compared with 2019. This ambition is in line with...

From major international hubs to smaller hubs, the decarbonisation drive at French airports is mobilising the entire industry. So much so that international bodies are now hailing the exemplary role played by French airports, as was the case at the fourth annual congress of French airports &...

In conjunction with the GBTA Europe conference in Brussels and the first Sustainability Summit, GBTA and HRS unveiled the results of a study carried out last summer in three markets: Europe, the United States and Canada. The aim of the study was to identify the importance attached to sustainable development in travel programmes, and in particular in the...

What did you learn from the GBTA Europe conference in Brussels, and in particular from the first Sustainability Summit? Stéphane Vallageas - Sustainability is a crucial objective for most companies in 2023. So GBTA Europe absolutely had to position itself in this trend. The event went very well, with some top-quality speakers...

Copenhagen will thus become the fortieth destination served by easyJet from Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. The airline made the new route official on Wednesday, and it is expected to be available in summer 2023. On the occasion, easyJet stressed that this year it was celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Nice base, and the progress made since its arrival on the Côte d'Azur.

Freenow surveyed 4,554 professionals in 9 European countries: France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Romania and Poland. The aim was to map out the future of corporate mobility, and in particular the place and future of the company car. Today, three out of ten French people (29%) have a company car, but the future of this...

The 41st Triennial Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which has just come to a close, can pride itself on having achieved a spectacular objective for the future of the planet... and of aviation. At the end of two weeks of intensive diplomacy by more than 2,500 delegates from 184 States and 57 organisations at the...

It's more than just a beautiful building. The new Strasbourg Exhibition Centre, inaugurated at the beginning of September, consolidates Strasbourg's ambitions. A major European crossroads, the Eurometropolis between France and Germany is now seeking to become a model for sustainable urban development. "The new Exhibition Centre is a concrete expression of the ambitions of a city that is asserting itself as one of...

Transport Minister Clément Beaune told the daily Le Parisien that he was considering regulating private jets in the interests of financial fairness. "There are reasons for urgency and economic imperatives, but this cannot be an individual mode of transport for comfort, when the general mobilisation under way...

In a report published at the end of July, the Accor group outlines the future prospects for business travel in Europe. The report is part of Accor's Master of Travel series. These meetings regularly bring together business travel managers to share their views on future demand. In her latest series, Sophie...

As part of the European Commission's "Connecting Europe Days", five sustainable European flights converged on Lyon airport, where the EU event was taking place. These flights used innovative technologies, fuels and air navigation procedures to minimise their carbon emissions, demonstrating the potential for transforming...

Last March, at a conference on passenger service, IATA unveiled a brand new methodology for calculating CO2 emissions. This was the result of work undertaken not only with carriers - 20 airlines contributed - but also with aircraft manufacturers, organisations responsible for defining international standards and suppliers...

It would be a revolution in a country where planes and big saloons are king and queen: a system of high-speed trains linking all the major cities in the United Arab Emirates. While the Middle East Rail 2022 conference is being held in Abu Dhabi, Shadi Malak, CEO of Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the...

Just a few days after the publication of its report on the environment, social and governance (ESG), American Express GBT clearly intends to take up the challenge of eco-responsibility. Now it's the turn of TMC's Meetings & Events division to step up to the plate with a new announcement: the launch of a "range...

Air France is working to reduce its CO2 emissions, and has just launched a programme called "Air France ACT". It aims to: reduce as a priority the direct emissions generated by Air France's operations, reduce indirect emissions, upstream and downstream of the airline's activities,...

The Airbus A350-1000 is the latest model to be integrated by Abu Dhabi's national airline, Etihad Airways. An aircraft which, according to the airline's CEO, Tony Douglas, CEO of the Etihad Group, opens the doors to the future for the carrier. "This is a new stage in our development, a stage in which this aircraft will enable us to achieve neutrality...

This is a major battle-horse for ACI Europe (Airports Council International): the end of short-haul air services, replaced by rail links. In Europe, Air France and the Lufthansa group have championed this cause, often under pressure from politicians. Northern European countries, led by Scandinavia, have also launched...

Faced with growing demand from business travel professionals for more effective carbon footprint measurement tools, TravelPerk is adding a new solution to the business travel landscape. The aptly-named GreenPerk was unveiled on Wednesday, with the aim of enabling companies to "analyse the impact of their business travel and create an action plan to reduce...

With the easing of entry formalities, French travellers will once again be able to converge on Singapore. They will discover a destination resolutely committed to sustainable tourism. This exemplary approach is reflected in the many concrete measures taken, particularly in the tourism sector. Starting with the hotel industry and its flagship...

The title of top city in France - and seventh in the world - won by Lyon in the GDS Index 2021 (Global Destination Sustainability Index) could have marked the culmination of the destination's efforts on the long road to sustainable development. But this is not the case. On the contrary, Lyon's managers are accelerating their efforts with...