Your employees are travelling to meetings, to conferences and events, as well as commuting to your office or site.
It is not only a case of travel expenses hitting your bottom line, but also that carbon footprint is a key contributor to climate change. The Zalaris My Carbon Footprint Solution may come in very handy when addressing this topic.
Significant benefits
There are significant benefits to the employee and the business.
A key advantage of the Zalaris CO2-tracker is that it is integrated into Zalaris’ PeopleHub Travel and Expense Solution, automatically tracking emissions from business travel. The calculated emissions from business travel are then reported in the My Carbon Footprint application. Thereby helping and report on business travel spend and corporate carbon footprint.
Why is this important?
Let’s take a look at some of the costs.
- Business travel accounts for $740 billion of spending annually.
- If aviation were a country, it would be the world’s sixth largest CO2 emitter, between Japan and Germany.
- The world’s aircraft fleet serves an estimated 3.7 billion passengers p.a.
- The average American commutes to work by car just under one hour each day – roughly 32 miles, which equates to about 3.2 tonnes of CO2 per person every year.
Commuting by rail is less damaging – while transport accounts for around one-fifth of global CO2 emissions, rail contributes to only two percent of the total.
Tracking emissions from travel and commute is a good way to better understand the footprint and do something about it. On a departmental or corporate level, understanding the travel patterns and their emissions is a great place to start to plan emission and cost reductions. With Zalaris’ My Carbon Footprint Solution, companies can easily calculate their carbon emissions from business travel and daily commute.
Benefits for employees
Employees can use the Zalaris My Carbon Footprint app to create their commute travel patterns and track their CO2 emissions. Travel patterns can be updated at any time to adjust emission calculations as their habits change, promoting ongoing motivation to improve sustainability.
It may also be a useful tool to boost engagement and retain talent – especially with sustainability-conscious Gen Z stepping into the workplace – and another argument in your favour when recruiting.
Benefits for your business
For your business the benefits are several.
With Scope 3 reporting becoming mandatory for large corporations within the EU, easy reporting on travel emissions is one less thing to worry about.
Know more on the topic
It is easy to talk about sustainability goals and initiatives, but a CO2 emission tracking solution provides the data to allow you to report on your progress. It gives you valuable insights into your impact on the environment and the incentive to plan how to reduce your carbon footprint.
Zalaris’ My Carbon Footprint Solution, part of our PeopleHub portfolio, takes these gains a stage further.
Integrating CO2-tracker for business travel
Integrated seamlessly into our business Travel and Expense Solution, it means you can track carbon footprint based on receipts and travel dates already inputted by employees. The app automatically calculates the CO2 emissions of their journey – for example flights and taxis – providing insight into the total impact of your company’s business travel. There is no need to enter additional data because automation does all the number crunching, removing the hassle of manual calculations for emissions related to business travel.
It helps you establish a baseline and then show improvement, monitoring progress in real time. Giving a 360° view of what your employees spend and emissions.
The Zalaris My Carbon Footprint solution allows for Scope 3 reporting on business travel and daily commute.
Reduced costs and increased awareness
It brings reduced costs and improved brand value.
Tracking corporate carbon footprint with our My Carbon Footprint Solution gives you unique visibility into travel spend and your company’s travel related emissions.
It’s a crucial step towards achieving a better balance for the future, reducing costs and better understanding the emissions impact for the individual employee and the company.
Get in touch with our experts who can help you understand more on our My Carbon Footprint Solution, and how to get started with it for your organisation.