Knowing that the external effects of our travel emissions disproportionally affect our clients as climate change has a greater impact on the poor in developing countries, the aim of this proposal is to bring down these emissions. We cannot stop at helping our clients become Paris-aligned, we need to adopt ourselves a behavior more aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The ultimate goal is to protect the most vulnerable from the effects of climate change and not reverse years of development success through the risks that climate change represents to these clients. The goal of the project is to raise awareness among staff about their emissions and give them the tools to choose less carbon-emitting alternatives to travel or travel more carbon-efficiently. We have learnt many lessons during the pandemic how to be efficient at work while travelling less or almost not at all. We want to make use of these lessons learned to travel more efficiently in the future and reduce the institution's footprint from air travel.

The WBG Travel, IT, Corporate Responsibility and Staff Association Teams have all come to together to bring visibility to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with official travel in the Travel Request system (a required 1st step all staff must take for permission to travel). Sharing the environmental cost associated with travel will bring greater clarity regarding its true cost. This information will include a dashboard, displaying emissions at staff, unit, VPU and organizational level of trips taken. It will also include a comparison between coach and business class emissions, estimated airfare costs and feature "Sustainable Travel Guideposts" before booking- acting as an awareness-raising campaign. The guideposts will be configured for easy exchange allowing for optimal targeted messaging. Sharing this information with staff at the trip planning phase should help influence them to make better-informed choices about the number of staff joining a mission, whether virtual tools can be leveraged to cut down on the number of travelers or the number of missions each year, opting to fly coach instead of business class, etc. Phase I will provide visibility during the Travel Request creation process. Phase II will integrate this detail in the TR system's approval screens, processes, and reporting. A travel decision-tree with travel alternatives and more efficient travel options will be introduced. The decision-tree will contain Information on technologies that will allow for remote mission supervision and best practices to travel more sustainably (e.g. size of missions, how to combine missions, how to best adopt a hybrid mission approach: virtual and on-site missions). Additionally, blogs, posters and intranet articles on more sustainable travel practices and tips and tricks will be developed. We would also like to look at travel policies promoting, incentivizing or dis-incentivizing sustainable travel behavior of staff.