Startups

RouteZero

Decarbonise business travel

Status
Active
Industry
GeoTech
Website
https://enterprise.routezero.world/

About

RouteZero is a climate-tech company which takes aim at Europe’s largest source of emissions: travel and transport. RouteZero decarbonises business travel emissions via digital tools. These tools are designed to institutionalise low-carbon behaviour by providing transparency into journey planning (cost, duration, and crucially, carbon intensity) and uses machine learning tools to increase the decarbonisation effect across the organisation.

RouteZero’s decarbonisation platform for business travel is deployed to leading government institutions and multinational enterprises. We use behavioural psychology to nudge traveller behaviour, targeting a 55% decarbonisation rate. There is a freely available / consumer version of the tool here; https://routezero.world.

20m tonnes

RouteZero aims to decarbonise 20 million tonnes of emissions.

Meet the founders

Dan Brown
Co-Founder and CEO
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He experienced the business travel emissions problem first hand whilst working in the tech-sector and serving multinational businesses around the world. Employees need help to find ways to undertake their business in sustainable ways, and we found that simple changes in behaviour led to 85%+ reductions in emissions.
Institutionalising this behaviour enables companies to meet the IPCC’s challenge, to halve emissions by 2030 and continue their journey to net zero.
Albie Baker-Smith
Co-Founder and CTO
Albie is responsible for technology and product development at RouteZero. He intended to solve the travel-emissions problem when he was looking for the lowest-emission route to go on holiday and found there wasn’t a good solution, so built one!
He previously built software deployed to CubeSats in orbit, as well as building mission control software to help satellite operators monitor and control their spacecraft. He has six years experience building website and app frontends and backends, designing UI & UX, and building highly scalable serverless platforms.

He previously put his tech skills to helping the environment by working with the BBC by helping model their digital systems and determine their carbon footprint.

He graduated with First Class Honours from an integrated Degree & Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bristol.