2023 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $110 million
Consolidated U.S. TMC: Amex GBT

Boston Consulting Group’s 2023 U.S.-booked air travel volume totaled $110 million, per a BTN estimate.

Business travel makes up about 80 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions at BCG. Compared with absolute emissions in 2022, BCG’s emissions in 2023 increased, which the company attributed to the continued rebound from two years of the pandemic.

To be able to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2030, BCG has said it will focus on reducing the emissions intensity of its primary emissions source: business travel. The company is on a path to reduce Scope 3 business travel emissions by 48.5 percent per full-time employee by 2025, as compared to its 2018 baseline, including from flights, hotel nights, rail, rental cars and taxis.

Despite the increase in absolute emissions in 2023 compared to the prior year, BCG’s emissions intensity from business travel

was 62 percent lower than in 2018. The company achieved this goal by altering travel habits and other efficiencies.

BCG has continued to provide in its internal reporting dashboards a carbon budgeting feature that allows senior managers to monitor individual and project-based travel emissions.

The company encourages rail travel wherever possible, and is modifying the format, cadence and location choices for meetings to lower emissions per participant.

The company continued with its rollout of hybrid and remote project team models as a way to lower emissions, and BCG encourages weekend stays at client sites to reduce the number of trips taken during project life cycles.

In addition, a meeting location optimizer tool assists planners with identifying the best locations for meetings to maximize participation, lower emissions and keep costs down.

The company increased its employee count to 32,000 in 2023 from 30,000 in 2022.