Environmental objective business travels
We aim to reduce emissions from business travel by travelling more sustainably, choosing digital meetings when possible, and prioritising climate-smart alternatives. In this way, we are building a more resource-efficient and sustainable SLU.
Goal:
By 2025, SLU will have reduced its total fossil fuel emissions from air travel by 60%, compared to 2019 per full-time equivalent. This could be the equivalent of a 90% reduction in domestic flights and 50% reduction in international flights.
Action plan:
The action plan is divided into three areas: Infrastructure, behaviour and work culture, and air travel emissions. Examples of activities in the action plan: continual collaboration with the travel agency regarding knowledge of environmental impact and alternative routes and modes of transport; communicate travel guidelines and business travel objectives, and follow up on statistics and explore the possibility of purchasing carbon offsets as compensation.
Follow-up:
SLU has reduced fossil emissions from air travel by 41% per full-time equivalent (FTE) compared with mid-year 2019. Over the same period, fossil emissions from domestic travel have decreased by 78%, and emissions from international travel by 33%, measured per FTE.