Executive Summary Business travel, which accounts for 15-20% of all global travel, is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. The aviation sector alone accounted for 2.5% of global emissions in 2018. In order to align with the Paris agreement, the aviation sector must reduce average carbon intensity by about 40% by 2035, increasing to about 65% reduction by 2050. To help ensure future temperature rise is limited to no more than 1.5°C, companies must reduce emissions associated with 20% reduction travel. While analysts predict a in business travel spending by 2023 compared to 2019 in part due to changing business travel habits from the pandemic, a reduction in dollars spent on travel alone won’t achieve the change that science tells us is needed. Collectively, we need a more strategic approach that carefully considers how to achieve the benefits that business travel provides in ways that significantly decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Companies must rethink how to best facilitate the kinds of collaboration and connection that travel makes possible. This will mean reducing non-essential travel and getting creative about how to bring people together in lower-emission ways when in-person gathering is needed. Because decisions at company, team, and individual levels can only be as good as the information that’s available, as a first step companies should calculate and share information about the climate impact of business travel. Then, they should provide tools to help employees minimize the emissions associated with travel and promote the travel options with the least associated emissions during the booking process and/or at point of sale. Most importantly, companies must collaborate with others to develop additional solutions and reduce the emissions impact of travel. It’s time to work together to develop better, lower-emission solutions that will make the collaboration and connection that business travel provides possible in a global Net Zero future. At Salesforce, we’re driving towards a 1.5°C future by focusing on these six sustainability priorities. Learn more about our Climate Action Plan and how you can accelerate your own journey to Net Zero. Emissions carbon removal Trillion Trees & Education & Regulation & Innovation Reduction Ecosystem Mobilization Policy Restoration 1 | Salesforce.com/sustainability