SKYSCANNER STRENGTHENS CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITMENT WITH NEW PARTNERSHIP

Skyscanner, the global travel search site, founded in Edinburgh in 2003 and with around 90m monthly users, has strengthened their commitment to tackling climate change by partnering with Pawprint, the carbon reducing employee engagement platform.

As of this month, every one of Skyscanners 1,100 global employees across nine offices has been invited to use Pawprint to enable them to measure, understand and reduce their carbon footprints at home, at work and beyond. 

Pawprint helps businesses achieve their net zero ambitions by empowering every employee to contribute towards sustainability goals. The Pawprint for Business employee engagement platform enables businesses to engage, support and unite employees in taking climate action, improving climate literacy and delivering data to accelerate the journey to net zero. 

Within just twelve hours of roll out Skyscanner employees across Europe, Asia, America and the UK were already actively using Pawprint, taking over 400 individual actions to reduce their carbon footprints and saving 9.1 tonnes of CO2e within the first day. 

Skyscanner is passionate about making the travel industry more sustainable, committing to leading the global transformation to green and sustainable travel.

To date they have been working towards this via a number of initiatives such as pioneering the introduction of a greener choices label – highlighting flights that emit less CO2 and being a founding member of Travalyst, a body bringing together travel industry leaders to preserve destinations, nature and communities.

Launched a ‘Traveller Footprint’ profile in app to help people understand the impact of their personal travel and helps give travellers the ability to carbon offset flights booked on Skyscanner 

Pawprint was founded in 2020 by experienced entrepreneur Christian Arno and is now used by nearly 50 businesses including; Royal London, innocent and CGI. One of a growing breed of businesses harnessing technology to tackle the world’s biggest issues, Pawprint was recently highlighted by the UK Government as a key Climate Leader.

Christian Arno (pictured above), founder and CEO of Pawprint said:  “Skyscanner’s global success has already put Scotland on the tech map cementing Edinburgh’s reputation for business innovation. Following this new partnership we are really optimistic that having an innovator as  respected as Skyscanner using Pawprint and  taking a proactive stance in tackling  climate change will drive change and create real  impact in the travel sector.”

Alix Farr, Sustainability Lead at Skyscanner commented; “At Skyscanner, we want to play a role in helping to shift the travel industry to sustainable foundations. We’re working to ensure our own business operates sustainably, by creating a Net Zero roadmap as part of our commitment to the Glasgow Declaration.

Our people are passionate about sustainability, so we’re excited to partner with Pawprint to engage with our employees around the impact of everyday actions and how to reduce their own footprints. And with leader-boards and prizes for those who reduce their impact the most, it’s set to be both educational and fun.”