American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has announced a partnership with climate tech company Chooose to enhance carbon emissions calculations in its travel booking and reporting tools. The agreement will allow Amex GBT to increase the precision and consistency of emissions data and help build architecture for future carbon compensation. Amex GBT’s VP of product strategy and user experience, Mark McSpadden, said the partnership will “enhance our tools with more granular CO2 calculations” and “help educate travellers”. Chooose’s data will replace current calculation mechanisms used in Amex GBT’s Neo online booking tool and will also be integrated into Egencia’s business travel platform. The solution will allow clients to apply a preferred calculation methodology across online booking, mobile app, and itinerary solutions to see consistent trip emissions values.
The new solution will also allow clients to track and manage their individual carbon footprint by applying Chooose emissions data to past and future trips booked since 2019. This will support the travel management company’s sustainable meeting and events solutions. Chooose CEO and founder Andreas Slettvoll said that the partnership takes an “end-to-end approach” to addressing business travel’s carbon footprint with a “deep focus” on delivering calculation methodologies and climate solutions in line with the latest guidance. The integration of Chooose’s platform will help Amex GBT to offer more sustainable travel options to its clients and improve the transparency and accuracy of emissions data.
