Savour the destination

You’re all about the destination and you don’t want to waste any time getting there - you’ll want maximum time at the beach (or forest, city, hotel, or wherever it is you’re spending your hard-earned break!).

Sustainable Travel Leave is for people just like you - People who care about the climate but don’t want their journey to eat into precious time enjoying their destination.

Say you have a week off work and want to spend it visiting family in Rome, you’d be hard pressed to choose the train over a flight knowing that doing so would mean arriving a day later and having to leave a day earlier.

That’s where Sustainable Travel Leave comes in. To help you make the flight-free choice the best option, your employer could give you paid ‘journey days’ on top of your annual leave - so you can enjoy the climate-friendly journey without losing out on precious time at your destination.

  • Lucy wants to travel from London to Berlin without flying.

    • Lucy calculates how long the journey takes (in this example, nine hours by train).

    • It would have taken two hours to fly - so it takes seven hours longer to get there without flying.

    • Lucy decides to take the train, reducing her emissions from the journey by 92 percent!

    • Lucy works for a company that offers Sustainable Travel Leave. This means she is granted an additional seven hours of paid time off work to cover the extra time required for her carbon-saving journey.

It’s working. Hundreds of employers have adopted Sustainable Travel Leave - from architects to accountants, legal firms to NGOs, publicly traded companies and everything in between.

Want your workplace to join the companies offering Sustainable Travel Leave?

We’d be delighted to help! We have tonnes of helpful resources and guidance for employers, including policy templates, employee procedure docs and roll-out materials. Simply click the button below to let us know you’re interested and we’ll be in touch to help you take this forward.

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