Business travel by the world’s largest companies fell by 34% between 2019 and 2023, according to the fourth edition of the Travel Smart Ranking by the think-tank and NGO network Transport & Environment (T&E), published on Tuesday 1 April.
Global multinationals are flying less, which has reduced the business travel emissions of 239 global companies by 34%.
However, 44% of the 326 companies in the ranking still do not have a target applying to business travel, which is putting overall progress at risk, according to T&E.
The rankings identify 25 global companies, including Google and Apple, with the largest business flying footprints but no sustainability targets. Although some of them claim to be environmental leaders, they have not taken any credible steps to set targets. Every year, their flights emit 6.9 Mt of CO2, the equivalent of 48,000 flights from Paris to New York. At least 19 of the world’s top travellers and CEOs own or charter private jets. These include Johnson & Johnson and Meta.
Read the study: https://aeur.eu/f/g71 (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)