Reform institution travel policies

The need for action

Maximising the take-up of Flight Free pledges is a priority. Organisations can do a lot of the groundwork by establishing a leadership role in encouraging this take-up. Get your climate action group, community organisation, NGO, workplace or business on board supporting the Flight Free pledge.

How we get there

Establish a DePlaning Plan template for businesses and organisations to use in developing their own Plan. Such a template could include commitments to:

• encourage employees to make the Flight Free pledge;
• assign responsibility to selected personnel for the education of all employees around the Plans goals;
• ensure personnel policies that promote DePlaning;
• sharing their experience in progressing their Plan with other like-minded organisations;
• audit, evaluate and report on progress annually; and
• make public the adoption of this DePlaning Plan, by placing a link to our Plan on the home page of our website, and by as many other means as possible.

The state of play

Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit

The Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit, second edition, now includes three levels of Air travel policy for Local Government Authorities as recommended transport actions.

Institutional change of travel policies

Well worth the read is Chapter 7 Institutional change of travel policies of Stay Grounded’s valuable report Regrowth aviation: Reducing air travel in a just way.

Can you help with this campaign?

With researching the issue?
With mapping a path to the goal?
With lobbying policy makers?
With spreading the word?