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Thoughts and insights to help you reduce carbon emissions, achieve your Net Zero target, work more sustainably and create positive change.
30 Ways Travel Companies Are Reducing Emissions
The travel and tourism industry is experiencing rapid growth, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. However, this expansion comes at an environmental cost, contributing significantly to global emissions.
Thankfully there are LOADS of actions travel companies can take to reduce their emissions. Here are 30 ideas to get you started.
ATTA - Leading By Example
The Adventure Travel Trade Association is a membership-based community organisation for the adventure travel sector that is leading by example on sustainability. Find out about how they are measuring, reducing, leading, partnering, inspiring and enabling.
How To Choose The Lowest Carbon Flights
With aviation being slow to decarbonise, it’s easy for businesses to bury their heads in the sand and assume there are no emissions savings to be had, but this simply isn’t the case. We’ve come up with some ideas to help you and your organisation reduce the emissions associated with flying.
9 Ways To Reduce Transport Emissions
With travel emissions making up such a significant proportion of our personal and business emissions, we’ve put together our top 9 tips to reduce transport emissions.
The Lowest Carbon Holidays
With some holidays creating over 5 tonnes of carbon emissions per person, we set out on a mission to come up with the holidays that are compatible with the Paris Agreement target of staying within 1.5 degrees of global warming. We’ve put together a list of some of the lowest carbon holidays possible (under 500 kgs of CO2 for one person) and the good news is that you can still get away and have a brilliant time experiencing different cultures, cuisines and activities.
The Carbon Footprint Of Holidays
Not all holidays are equal when it comes to their carbon footprint. Most people don’t know which holidays create the most (and the least) carbon emissions. This article aims to make this clear and proposes a path holiday companies can take to not only reduce the carbon footprint of their trips, but to help customers make more informed (and lower carbon) holiday choices.
8 Decarbonisation Tips for Tour Operators
The travel industry can be criticised as being slow to decarbonise, but there are 8 steps that any tour operator can take to reduce their carbon emissions and reach Net Zero.
What is the Glasgow Declaration?
The Glasgow Declaration recognises that to successfully decarbonise travel, all organisations in the industry must unite. It is the formalisation of the Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency campaign.
10 Sustainable Travel Tips
Sustainable travel doesn’t have to be a myth. Follow Charlie’s top tips for a lower carbon holiday that you can still enjoy to the max.
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2026
- 29 Oct 2026 Eco Labels & Certification for Travel Companies: Ditch the badge and use a performance metric
- 10 Sept 2026 PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plans: What They Are and Who Needs One
- 26 Aug 2026 Why are other companies’ emissions part of my business’s carbon footprint?
- 26 Aug 2026 What Data is Required to Calculate a Company’s Carbon Footprint?
- 25 Aug 2026 Absolute Emissions vs Carbon Intensity Targets
- 21 Aug 2026 Carbon Neutral, Carbon Negative or Net Zero?
- 21 Aug 2026 What are Scope 1, 2 & 3 Emissions
- 11 Aug 2026 UK SRS: What It Is, Who It Affects, and What Travel and Events Companies Should Actually Do
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2025
- 27 Jan 2025 21 Ways Event Companies Are Reducing Emissions
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2024
- 20 Dec 2024 30 Ways Travel Companies Are Reducing Emissions
- 29 Nov 2024 Melting Mountains: The Paradox of Ski Resorts and Climate Change
- 8 Nov 2024 ATTA - Leading By Example
- 8 Nov 2024 Why Activity-based Carbon Calculations are King
- 24 Sept 2024 How to be a Responsible Tourism Business
- 19 Aug 2024 Investing in Nature - A Case Study
- 15 Jul 2024 ecollective’s Carbon Emissions
- 9 Jul 2024 When Everyone Is Offsetting, Why Should You Be Insetting?
- 25 Jun 2024 8 Tips For Writing An Impactful Impact Report
- 27 May 2024 Are Heat Pumps & Solar Panels Worthwhile?
- 2 Apr 2024 Ecolabels & Certifications: Are they worth it?
- 18 Mar 2024 Business Growth vs Emissions Reduction - The Airline Industry
- 15 Mar 2024 Why Carbon Reduction and Nature Protection Go Hand in Hand
- 19 Feb 2024 How to Comply with SECR Rules
- 30 Jan 2024 How To Choose The Lowest Carbon Flights
- 16 Jan 2024 9 Ways To Reduce Transport Emissions
- 9 Jan 2024 The Lowest Carbon Holidays
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2023
- 7 Dec 2023 The Carbon Footprint Of Holidays
- 28 Nov 2023 How to Integrate Carbon Credits Into A Net Zero Strategy
- 31 Oct 2023 How to Create A Carbon Budget
- 2 Oct 2023 Why Your Company Needs A Carbon Action Fund
- 15 Sept 2023 ecollective’s Carbon Report 2022/23
- 6 Sept 2023 Measuring Your Company’s Carbon Footprint - Which Option is Best?
- 24 Aug 2023 8 Areas Businesses Can Reduce Waste to Cut Emissions
- 9 Aug 2023 How to Reduce Your Company’s Digital Carbon Footprint
- 3 Jul 2023 How To Reduce Upstream Scope 3 Emissions
- 26 Jun 2023 8 Decarbonisation Tips for Tour Operators
- 13 Jun 2023 How to Run Low Carbon Events / Exhibitions
- 23 May 2023 How To Reduce Downstream Scope 3 Emissions
- 22 Mar 2023 The Carbon Footprint of Formula One
- 13 Mar 2023 5 Company Benefits of Carbon Training
- 10 Mar 2023 What is the Glasgow Declaration?
- 23 Feb 2023 7 Employee Carbon Reduction Strategies
- 3 Feb 2023 Is Carbon Neutral the Enemy?
- 18 Jan 2023 The Carbon Footprint of the Aviation Industry
- 18 Jan 2023 The Carbon Footprint of Tennis (and how to reduce it)
- 2 Jan 2023 Does Working From Home Reduce Carbon Emissions?
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2022
- 9 Dec 2022 10 Sustainable Travel Tips
- 6 Dec 2022 How to Avoid Greenwashing
- 23 Nov 2022 Designing A Low(er) Carbon World Cup
- 21 Nov 2022 How to Create a Carbon Budget for Business Travel
- 18 Nov 2022 Carbon: Frequently Asked Questions
- 7 Nov 2022 5 Carbon Reduction Actions To Achieve Net Zero
- 31 Oct 2022 Psst…Carbon Accounting is not 100% Accurate
- 27 Oct 2022 Carbon Offsetting 101
- 24 Oct 2022 5 Customer Strategies To Help Your Business Achieve Net Zero
- 17 Oct 2022 Why Should Your Company Have A Net Zero Strategy?
- 12 Oct 2022 The most carbon intensive thing you can do?
- 10 Oct 2022 What is Carbon Intensity and Why is it Useful?
- 6 Oct 2022 What is the effect of carbon labelling?
- 28 Sept 2022 What are B Corp’s Carbon Reduction Targets?
- 21 Sept 2022 The most un-sustainable travel
- 14 Sept 2022 5 ways to spot greenwashing
- 7 Sept 2022 10 carbon reduction hacks to introduce to your daily routine
- 31 Aug 2022 5 podcasts to get clued up on carbon
- 24 Aug 2022 The carbon footprint of your holiday drinks
- 17 Aug 2022 What are Science Based Targets?
- 10 Aug 2022 Plastic vs reusable - which is a better water bottle?
- 10 Aug 2022 How could carbon labels tell you the carbon cost of your shop?
- 3 Aug 2022 Why making your product (actually) sustainable will benefit your business
- 21 Jul 2022 The carbon footprint of sport
- 19 Jul 2022 How to make the changes to your life that will reduce your carbon footprint
- 6 Jul 2022 What’s peat and why is it important?
- 23 Jun 2022 The most sustainable ways to spend a sunny weekend
- 15 Jun 2022 Are Coldplay greenwashing?
- 25 May 2022 We’re reducing our own carbon footprint
- 18 May 2022 How to be a carbon reduction cheerleader
- 11 May 2022 Tipping points: what you need to know
- 6 May 2022 5 common Net-Zero mistakes
- 6 Apr 2022 The carbon footprint of your holiday
- 21 Mar 2022 How to choose carbon offsets
- 15 Mar 2022 What you need to know about carbon offsets
- 11 Mar 2022 How to become a net zero business
- 7 Mar 2022 Why every business should carbon label their products
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2020
- 12 Nov 2020 We've declared a Climate Emergency
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2019
- 11 Mar 2019 Carbon jargon explained