Join us for our upcoming face-to-face workshop focused on understanding, measuring and reducing businesses travel emissions.

To reach net zero, businesses need to account for their travel related emissions. Business travel, for example, can account for around 10% of an SME’s carbon footprint and is a focus area for many of our CitySwitch members.

This workshop, delivered in partnership with BWD Strategic, will build on the national webinar and provide you with a deeper understanding of your business related travel emissions, methods to capture and quantify them and ways of setting realistic targets by developing an internal travel policy. There will also be a hands-on activity on managing and reducing your scope 3 travel emissions within your organisation.

This workshop will cover:

an introduction to scope 3 travel emissions and a recap of our national webinar
capturing, measuring and quantifying travel emissions
demystifying electric vehicles
developing a travel policy for your business
managing and reducing scope 3 travel emissions
next steps and future commitments.

Facility managers, sustainability officers, office managers, green teams or simply those looking to understand all things travel emissions related, this will be a great discussion for you.

We welcome potential new CitySwitch members to this workshop.

Light breakfast catering will be served and a free tea/coffee voucher for the onsite café will be provided. Don't forget your reusable coffee cup.

For more information, contact Ifan Jones, CitySwitch program manager, ijones@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au.

Presenter Bios:

Cassandra Lau is a Senior Strategy Associate at BWD Strategic. She has a multidisciplinary background and an ambition to help create more sustainable, inclusive and resilient spaces, Cassandra has consulted on various ESG projects in property and financial services. Recent publications include ASFI’s The Australian Taxonomy Transition Methodology Research Paper through EY and Property Council of Australia’s carbon offsets framework in partnership with GBCA.

Matt Van Someren is a Strategy Director // Climate Expert at BWD Strategic. Driven by his desire to create a better world, Matt combines a deep knowledge and passion for sustainability and climate solutions with extensive communications, stakeholder engagement and project management experience. Matt acted as Project Manager for a number of recent sustainability strategy and reporting projects, including Canon, Hume Community Housing, Ausgrid, Dexus, and HMC Capital, and is currently supporting a Materiality Assessment for a large Hong Kong based energy company.