BA to offset carbon emissions for ACTE conference delegates
British Airways has promised to offset carbon emissions produced by delegates travelling to and from the Association of Corporate Travel Executives’ (ACTE) conference in Barcelona later this month.
More than a thousand delegates will attend the global education conference in Barcelona on October 22-24.
BA will also sponsor offsets of all carbon emissions produced by delegates while in Barcelona, and will use the money to fund a renewable energy project in the developing world.
The airline already allows customers to offset their flight emissions using a link on its website whih calculates the emissions generated by their journey and allows them to pay for an equivalent carbon saving elsewhere in the world.
ACTE is also encouraging delegates to use low-emission transportation from the airport to the conference centre and requesting them to walk to and from lectures.
The conference hotels, AC Barcelona, Barcelona Princess and Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona, have been selected by ACTE due to their commitment to environmentally friendly business operations.
ACTE is also urging its members to reduce CO2 emissions on a long-term basis by making responsible travel choices an integral part of their everyday work.
An ACTE survey indicated that one third of company travel managers would consider terminating the contracts of suppliers with a poor environmental record.
A conference session on ‘green’ tendering methods for travel managers will be led by Bernard Harrop, managing director of IG Management, and will include contributions from Jon Price of the Carbon Neutral Company and Jan Peter Bergkvist, director of Environmental Sustainability, Hilton International.
Other speakers include Daniel Calleja y Crespo, the directorate-general for Energy and Transport at the European Commission, and David Rabey from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) who will describe how UK government procurement policy is embracing the concept of sustainable development.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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