GBTA Sustainability Acceleration Challenge

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Advancing the Global Business Travel Industry to Net Zero

The GBTA Sustainability Acceleration Challenge aims to mobilize organizations of all sizes and in all geographies, to start, advance, and accelerate the integration of practices that materially reduce their business travel emissions. It empowers corporate travel managers and buyers, together with their value chain, to take climate action and progress on the journey to Net Zero by 2050.

To learn more about the GBTA Acceleration Challenge, download the Overview Guide.

Steps to Success: How to Embark on the Acceleration Journey

Complete the Maturity Assessment

Evaluate your organization or travel program’s sustainability maturity level across four categories of action.

Complete the Maturity Assessment

Evaluate your organization or travel program’s sustainability maturity level across four categories of action.

The 2024 edition closed on October 15

Prepare for the 2025 edition

See where the Industry Stands

View the aggregated industry results in a public, interactive dashboard where you can filter by region, segment, and size.

See where the Industry Stands

View the aggregated industry results in a public, interactive dashboard where you can filter by region, segment, and size.

Explore the State of the Industry Dashboard

Join the Challenge

Participate in the Challenge to accelerate progress by improving your score year-on- year, with industry leaders and changemakers recognized annually.

Join the Challenge

Participate in the Challenge to accelerate progress by improving your score year-on- year, with industry leaders and changemakers recognized annually.

Commit to Making Progress

Who should participate?

The Maturity Assessment is a free resource for GBTA members and non-members. Corporate travel managers and sustainability professionals from any organizations interested in accelerating progress towards climate-conscious business travel are invited to participate.

Organizational Benefit

Organizations will receive an individualized report which benchmarks against their peers. With these insights, companies can enhance sustainable practices, foster innovation, and work towards sustainability targets.

Individual Benefit

Gain insights into the sustainability maturity of your business travel program and how to improve, compare with industry peers, and contribute to industry-wide progress.

Categories of sustainable action

Developing a sustainable travel program involves setting up a combination of measures at different levels of the organization and with various stakeholders. The Acceleration Challenge is based around four categories of sustainable action that can be leveraged by organizations to reduce business travel emissions. Determining which levers to prioritize depends on carbon impact combined with a company’s budget, time ambition, company culture, and other factors.

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See where the industry stands

Discover the pulse of sustainable business travel practices with the interactive Industry Dashboard. Use the filter panel to filter information by Global Spend, Industry Segment, and Travel Program Geographic Scope. Note that users should avoid filters which create a statistically irrelevant sample size. Use the Clear All Selections button to remove all filters.

You can download a summary report here.

Want to know more? Access the GBTA Sustainability Acceleration Challenge Dashboard on your desktop to see where the industry stands on sustainable business travel.

Summary & Demographics
Travel Decisions
Emissions Tracking
Supplier Engagement
Decarbonization

If you are experience issues with the GBTA Industry Dashboard, please email accelerationchallenge@gbta.org

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Join the Global Movement to Take Climate Action in Business Travel

Ready to drive your sustainability strategy forward? We invite companies of all sizes, in all geographies, to join us in taking meaningful steps toward improving the sustainability of their business travel program.

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Please complete the form below if you’d like to be publicly recognized as a participant to the GBTA Sustainability Acceleration Challenge.

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Your pathway to improved travel program’s sustainability

GBTA Foundation provides resources to support your efforts to accelerate business travel sustainability at your organization, and to collectively create a more resilient and sustainable future for our industry, the environment, and communities around the world.