Join the One in Five Challenge!

Helping companies fly less – good for business, good for the planet.

Get Your Business Involved, Take the One in Five Challenge!

WWF One In Fiive Challenge

WWF-UK’s new One in Five Challenge helps companies and government agencies to reduce the environmental impact of their business travel and gives public recognition for their achievements.

The challenge is to cut one in five business flights within five years.

Why reducing your company flying makes good business sense:

Cutting back on unnecessary flying can be a quick and easy way to make a big impact on your company’s carbon footprint.  But what’s good for the planet can also be good for business.  Here are just a few of the reasons why companies are increasing their use of alternatives such as videoconferencing and rail:

  • cost savings – from avoided flights and accommodation
  • time savings – with fewer hours out of the office travelling
  • productivity gains – it’s more efficient to work on a train or in the office than on a plane
  • better work-life balance for staff – fewer early starts and late nights to and from airports, with less family disruption
  • higher staff retention – by showing that a company is committed to the well-being of its staff and the natural environment

WWF's One in Five Challenge aims to galvanise the growing desire among businesses to fly less by providing a focus for flight reduction.  With clear aims and with buy-in from boardroom level, the One in Five Challenge can help accelerate the organisational commitment to greener business travel that will need to happen to reduce flying.  What's more, the One in Five Challenge is an easy way to let your business partners and investors know that you as a business are doing the responsible thing and flying less.

Becoming a member of the One in Five Challenge entitles your company to:

  • a toolkit to help you plan and implement a greener business travel policy
  • support from travel planning experts to understand and control the extent of your business flying and track progress in achieving the One in Five Challenge
  • information to help your company choose appropriate alternatives
  • help to improve staff compliance with business travel policy
  • help with quantifying cost and carbon savings to communicate to investors and others
  • opportunities to attend videoconferencing demonstrations
  • an annual workshop to help companies implement the One in Five Challenge
  • One in Five Challenge branding for internal and external communications associated with CSR and business travel, including a specially designed WWF logo for award winners
  • acknowledgement of your company’s membership in WWF-UK communications plus extra recognition for those achieving the One in Five Challenge

If you think your business would be interested in taking up the One in Five Challenge, or if you would like to find out more, visit http://www.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/get_your_business_involved/one_in_five_challenge/

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Glossary

If you're meeting by video, you're not travelling as much. Costs are reduced and savings are made as soon as you start meeting over video.
Videoconferencing is a live communication between people in separate locations. It usually involves audio and text as well as video. Videoconferencing in its simplest form transmits static images and text between two locations. Sophisticated video systems today can transmit full-motion video images and high-quality audio between multiple locations.
Video conferencing solutions comprise of everything you need to enable video communication between people in separate locations. Video conferencing systems can range from simple desk top systems for one-to-one video calls through to a sophisticated system, fully integrated into the design of your room for a video call between many people at a number of different locations.
Important to us all is the balance between our work and home. A video conferencing solution reduces the need to be away so often thus allowing more time with family and friends.