I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

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According to a draft leaked by @ScientistRebel1 the authors of the mitigation part of the latest report recommended that all fossil fuels should be phased out.

But this recommendation didn't make it into the final mitigation report or this week's final synthesis report.

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Scientists from around the world worked on the latest IPCC report for almost a decade.

But according to leaked documents, many of their recommendations were removed or altered significantly.

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Something to keep in mind always, but especially in the coming days:

Grief, loneliness, family estrangement, depression, addiction all seem to hurt more this time of year. Just about everyone I’ve met with this week is struggling extra

… I guess what im saying is, please be good to each other. Life is hard right now for a lot of people, and the holiday season can put every kind of hardship into laser focus. Mind how you go.