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Travel within your business
For many small businesses and organisations, travel plays a crucial role to how you operate; whether it’s staff commuting, business meetings, deliveries, or customer and visitor transport, it all adds up. However, travel can also be a significant source of carbon emissions, contributing to both your environmental impact and operating costs.
Understanding how travel affects your carbon footprint is the first step in making more sustainable choices. By reviewing travel habits, measuring impact, and implementing changes, your business can reduce emissions, improve efficiency, and align with Net Zero goals.
Small businesses and organisations can make a BIG difference by rethinking their transport choices – every decision around travel, counts.
The next few pages will take you through how to:
- Better understanding your current travel usage
- Embrace change and engage your wider team to make sustainable choices
- Support long-term reductions in your travel associated emissions
Get started
Step one
Beginner
Identify all the ways that travel occurs within your business. From staff commuting, to business travel, you'll collect data on travel habits. This will help lay the groundwork to support making more sustainable options.
Step two
Intermediate
Interpret your travel data and identify areas for improvement. Here you'll find ways to help engage your wider team to deliver positive change.
Step three
Expert
Build a framework to support sustainable travel options within your business. Implement new processes and review your progress.