Taking the bike instead of a car cuts carbon emissions, improves local air quality, and makes our streets more pleasant and quieter.
For employers, supporting your people and visitors who want to get about by bike is a powerful message that you take your social and environmental responsibilities seriously. Providing fleet bikes or e-bikes for your people to use for local business travel, instead of using a car or taxi, helps to cut your organisation’s carbon footprint.
For many organisations, transport is typically one of the largest sources of carbon emissions. Encouraging getting by bike about should be included in any organisation’s carbon reduction initiatives.
Here are a few facts and figures from recent research to back this up:
University of Auckland study (2010) - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00621.x/full(external link)
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