WWF - For a living planet

Are you a business wanting to fly less?

WWF's report, Travelling Light, has found that there is great potential for businesses to fly less while remaining productive. There are many good reasons why businesses are now flying less and making greater use of audio and videoconferencing:

• A quick way to significantly cut your company's carbon footprint
• Cost savings - from avoided flights and accommodation
• Time efficiencies and less disruption
• Better work-life balance for employees
• Improved collaboration and communication with global clients, suppliers and colleagues through greater frequency of 'virtual' meetings, involving more people
• Faster decision-making
• Productivity gains

With one in four companies now measuring their carbon emissions, cutting back on non-essential business travel is increasingly viewed as a quick way of making big carbon savings. Furthermore, with more companies producing annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports, and growing pressure from government, there is an expectation to see carbon emissions being reduced..

Rewarding positive changes

WWF's One in Five Challenge aims to galvanise the growing desire among businesses to fly less by providing a focus for flight reduction. With clear aims and with buy-in from boardroom level, the One in Five Challenge can help accelerate the organisational commitment to greener business travel that will need to happen to reduce flying. What's more, the One in Five Challenge is an easy way to let your business partners and investors know that you as a business are doing the responsible thing and flying less.

Becoming a member of the One in Five Challenge entitles your company to: