American Express Global Business Travel Introduces Revolutionary Sustainability Tool To Transform Corporate Travel And Cut Emissions

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• Real-Time Emissions Tracking: A new dashboard provides up-to-date, customized strategies to reduce emissions based on corporate travel patterns.
• Sustainable Business Integration: Aligns cost management with carbon reduction, ensuring companies meet their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals while enhancing financial outcomes.
• Effortless Implementation: Travel managers can easily adopt recommendations through seamless integration with travel policy settings for quick and efficient adoption.

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has introduced a groundbreaking, data-driven sustainability tool on its Egencia platform. This new feature provides clients with innovative solutions aimed at lowering their corporate travel carbon footprint through practical, actionable insights.

Developed with input from corporate travel managers, the tool delivers personalized recommendations that not only reduce emissions but also help manage travel expenses. These recommendations, grounded in real travel data, offer a clear and efficient route to adopting more sustainable travel practices.

The tool provides valuable insights, including:

• Air vs. Rail Comparison: Identifies when rail travel is a viable, lower-emission alternative to flying.
• Carbon-efficient Flights: Highlights flights that produce fewer CO₂ emissions than the average, making comparisons simpler.
• Cabin Class Recommendations: Recommends seating options with lower emissions based on the length of the flight.
• Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Insights: Displays SAF lifecycle reductions, integrated with the Avelia platform for a deeper understanding.

All of these insights are accessible through a newly integrated sustainability dashboard within the travel manager’s analytics studio, which also offers direct policy-setting tools for prompt action.

This launch expands on Amex GBT’s previous introduction of a carbon pricing model, which assigns a monetary value to emissions, as part of its broader initiative to integrate sustainability into corporate travel.