MOVERS & SHAKERS Sustainability

Ones to watch' in the sustainability space

Chooose

CHOOOSE is a climate tech platform that provides tools for integrating climate action into any customer experience through automated emissions calculations, dynamic sustainability scores, a vetted marketplace of carbon removals and offsets and climate programme reporting. Following a successful series B funding, it is expanding its portfolio of climate solutions from Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), carbon removals and verified offsets. It is hoping to create greater awareness of the environmental benefits of SAF and demonstrate demand for the fuel to scale its adoption across the global aviation industry.

BLACK BOX VERDICT On a worthy mission to close the gap between climate intention and climate action and also promote the demand for SAF.

Thrust Carbon

Thrust Carbon tools are designed to be effortless to deploy across your organisation, their mantra… Effortlessly Green. The products are simple to implement and the API solutions are built for ease of integration. Thrust Calculator uses hundreds of different data points to provide robust and defensible reporting. Thrust Engage is a suite of behavioural change tools that create and measure carbon budgets. Thrust Offset provides

CTM CLIMATE+

CTM Climate+ sustainable travel programme consists of an ecosystem of services and technology solutions to help clients improve the sustainability of their travel programme by making more informed travel decisions. CTM’s proprietary online booking tool, Lightning, empowers the user to make more sustainable travel decisions by displaying carbon emissions for air, hotel, and car. It can filter and preference car results for EV and hybrid vehicles and sort flights and hotels by lowest emissions. The programme enables carbon offsetting at the final step of booking or end of the month, via CTM Climate+ or a client's own offsetting solution.

BLACK BOX VERDICT The investment made by this business to bring all important emissions data to the point of sale is admirable.

an independent platform to connect to any carbon offset scheme and the recently-launched Thrust Events is a solution for the M&E space. The team are now regularly featured for their travel sustainability expertise by the BBC, New York Times, CNN and more.

BLACK BOX VERDICT We admire the effortless approach, truly delivered in the ease of integration and the simplicity of the ever-expanding product suite.

Greengage

Aimed at the hotel, aparthotel and event venue sectors, Greengage's ECOsmart accreditation provides a quality stamp of approval, giving suppliers a competitive edge while helping companies make sustainable decisions when booking. A new addition, EVENTsmart, provides a carbon calculator for responsible meetings and events of all sizes, looking at travel, accommodation, the meeting space, catering, electricity, gas, water, event materials and waste.

BLACK BOX VERDICT The new event product meets a growing demand from organisers, hotels and meeting venues for a new approach to responsible event planning. A great addition.