towards net zero
responsible travel
To meet its pledge of Net Zero by no later than 2040, RELX has set itself a range of measurable objectives and tracks progress through the RELX CO2 Hub, a data platform which measures, analyses and reports its Scope 1, 2 and 3 CO2 emissions.
With post-pandemic air travel now firmly back on the radar, RELX encourages responsible air travel, a key component, and uses automated analytics to collate and analyse business traveller data to drive positive behavioural change.
As a global provider of information-based analytics, with more than 35,000 employees across the world, RELX is reducing its flight emissions caused by air travel through an innovative solution thanks to Cirium, its aviation analytics business.
The automated cloud-based solution collects traveller data each week from RELX's travel management company and uses the Cirium flight emissions data algorithm to quantify CO2 emissions per flight.
The level of precision and accuracy of Cirium's calculations, based on fuel-burn as opposed to distance-travelled, has been validated by major carriers. American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic commend the accuracy of Cirium’s fuel burn estimates in pre-market evaluations.
Experimenting with carbon budgets
The granular flight and traveller analytics have enabled RELX to experiment with carbon budgets through its CO2 Hub.
The idea is to set budgets to be managed at the business, team and user levels via metrics displayed in the Hub. As well as reporting 'actual' vs 'budget' tCO2 emissions for the year-to-date, insights are available on how emissions can be saved by travelling in a lower cabin class, reducing internal travel, and other metrics.
RELX has also introduced new metrics to show carrier intensity. This enables its travellers to compare carriers by tCO2 per km flown as well as price, with the solution influencing decision-making at point-of-sale.
This story is part of a series on RELX's journey towards Net Zero. Look out for part two on cloud computing.
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