The Coalition for Greener Mobility Update

Tad Zurlinden

I’m delighted to say that the Coalition for Greener Mobility has made steady progress in the last three months. Individual Associations have taken responsibility for various tasks;

1. The creation of a Glossary of Terms for the Mobility Industry to ensure that we are all speaking the same language. This was led by Steve Cryne for the CERC and was supported by a number of individuals from various different sectors within our industry. The full Glossary and a list of legislative terms will shortly be published on the Coalition website.

2. How to be a Sustainable Mover – Magali Horbert of FIDI is leading a group of movers who will create a Road Map of the Moving Industry on how to move forward. Magali was supported by FIDI Members around the world in developing a report on this. As soon as this is complete the results will be published on the Coalition website.

3. How to be a Sustainable DSP – Here EuRA has taken the lead. Working with Members around the world we are putting together a Road Map for DSPs. Our first meeting took place a couple of weeks ago, in fact it was two meetings – one involving Asia and then another involving the Americas, with the Europeans spread across both. These sessions examined most of the environmental issues facing DSPs and there will be a further session in late July looking at the other aspects of Sustainability.

4. How to be a Sustainable Corporate Housing Provider – this is being led by Mary Ann Passi at CHPA and they are working with the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP) in the UK to ensure that the results of their Road Map reflect the industry internationally.

There are of course other areas that need to be addressed including how Sustainability will affect Relocation Management Companies and how it will be addressed in RFPs from Corporates moving their employees around the world. The main reason for developing the various Road Maps is to be able to share our findings with Corporates to ensure that they focus their attentions on what is possible for providers in practice, rather than adding random requests that cannot be attained.

To promote our activities we have also added more material to the website www.greenermobilty.org including a promotional video made during the EuRA Conference in Dublin. If you want to support this initiative, you can click on the ‘Take Action’ button on the home page and let us know how you can help.

The Coalition is looking for partners to work with and to help fund any future projects we may take on in our objective to make the Mobility Industry more sustainable.

I should also thank CERC for all the work they have done on developing the website for the Coalition.

More recently we set up a Coalition page on LinkedIn please support us by joining and watch out for any of our posts.

We are also launching an ESG training programme “Sustainability for DSP’s” which will be MIM+ accredited and run over 5 live sessions starting in September and ending with a face to face workshop in Vilamoura so watch your inbox for bulletins announcing the dates and how to sign up.

Finally, though we are a relatively new initiative we are sad to be losing Lynn Shotwell who has worked with us in her role as President and CEO of WERC. However, Lynn is moving on to a new role in a totally different sector, we wish her well. We will also see Chuck White, CEO of IAM leave our group in the autumn when he retires. His successor Brian Limperopulos has already joined our regular meetings and we look forward to working with him.