2023 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $28.1M
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD Travel
Professional services company Jacobs spent a BTN estimated $28.1 million on 2023 U.S.-booked air travel in 2023, a slight increase on 2022.
Business travel is the company’s biggest single source of carbon emissions, accounting for 77,347 metric tons of CO2e in FY23. That figure was around half of the company’s overall emissions but was 37 percent down from 122,011 in its FY19 baseline year.
Jacobs is committed to halving its Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 2030 from a 2019 baseline, and to a 90 percent reduction by 2040. It has also committed to ensuring 65 percent of its suppliers by spend will have science-based targets by 2025.
The company uses DEFRA business travel emissions factors for air travel that include both direct emissions from fuel burn and the impact of radiative forcing.
Jacobs uses a dashboard to provide employees with visibility of their business travel emissions and is pulling on several levers to reduce its environmental impact including videoconferencing, online versus in-person training, virtual conferences, and encouraging employees to switch from air to train where feasible.
It names Uber for Business as a new partner that enables employees to use EVs for rideshare services and to track emissions data. Its travel policy preferences public transport or rideshare services over car rental for environmental purposes.
In 2022 Jacobs established an internal carbon price of $50 per metric ton of CO2e for all non-billable business travel to help influence decision-making around travel. The carbon cost is added to the cost of travel and proceeds are used to fund carbon reduction and removal initiatives.