Emirates-owned air and travel services provider dnata is to pump $100 million over two years into green operations.
The aim is to reduce the company’s carbon footprint by 50% by 2030.
The investment is being made to further enhance environmental efficiency across its global network.
The spend on infrastructure, equipment and process improvement will support an aim to achieve its strategic objectives and reduce its carbon footprint by 20% by 2024, rising to 50% by 2030.
One of the elements is supporting more sustainable travel, aiming to empower customers to make better travel choices.
Its corporate services include hybrid event solutions, sustainable travel policy guidance as well as carbon emission monitoring and reporting, aligned to global standards.
Dnata Travel Group in the UK has invested in green technologies and introduced new business practices to improve environmental efficiency.
It switched to renewable energy to take all electricity from green sources at all of its offices, cut out single-use plastic from its operations, reduced paper consumption by four million pages a year through a paperless office initiative and implemented a zero to landfill policy to ensure that all non-recyclable waste is sent to energy recovery facilities for processing.
The UK travel arm also replaced 80% of its fleet with electric or hybrid cars with a target to operate a fully green fleet by 2024.
Hundreds of dnata employees around the world teamed up bin May and took part in the company initiative ‘dnata cleans the world’. Volunteers cleaned beaches, rivers, canals and parks in dozens of countries.
Dnata Group chief executive Steve Allensaid: “We’ve been making great progress on reducing our carbon footprint, minimising waste and reducing energy and water consumption across our operations.
“We will further increase our investments and efforts in strong co-operation with our partners to achieve our targets and preserve the environment for current and future generations.”