Thrust Carbon is excited to unveil its NetZero Forecaster, a powerful new tool designed to help organisations strategically plan their path to net zero. By generating forward-looking carbon and cost models, the NetZero Forecaster enables users to build and compare different strategies for decarbonising their business travel programs.
The NetZero Forecaster allows organisations to experiment with numerous carbon reduction levers, and balance their ambitious climate targets with operational requirements, cost factors and broader industry trends. Seamlessly integrated with any organisation’s live emissions data, the NetZero Forecaster continuously adapts to shifts in emissions and travel patterns, eliminating the need for costly rebuilding of manual forecast models when things change.
The NetZero Forecaster offers businesses several core advantages:
- Visualise realistic pathways: Intuitively experiment with numerous decarbonisation levers in order to find the most realistic and cost effective way for the business to hit their net zero goals—including understanding the potential future costs of SAF or carbon removals.
- Inspire stakeholder confidence: Clear emissions calculations and visual projections make it easy to show stakeholders the 'why' behind every policy change, demonstrating financial and environmental impacts before implementation.
- Use resources efficiently: Direct integrations with the organisations’ carbon accounting data and existing net zero goals, eliminating dependency on external consultants for scenario planning, and enabling instant modelling of different approaches.
“Business travel emissions management has just come of age.” said Kit Aspen, Founder & CEO at Thrust Carbon. “Within a single platform, organisations can now measure their emissions, manage compliance, find reduction opportunities and model future decarbonisation scenarios.”
The NetZero Forecaster is now live and available in early access via the Thrust Calculator. New features and capabilities are being added based on user insights and industry developments, ensuring the tool remains at the forefront of the constantly evolving travel landscape. A full list of the tool capabilities are included at the end of this press release.
Thrust Carbon’s Advisory team is also available to work with clients on bespoke versions of the NetZero Forecaster and to help companies plan for their net zero goals.
To learn more about the NetZero Forecaster you can reach out to Thrust Carbon at hello@thrustcarbon.com, visit our website to learn more, or sign up to our upcoming webinar ‘Expert Exchange: Net Zero Forecasting for Business Travel’.
The tool’s key capabilities:
Forecast customisation options:
- Create multiple forecasts: visualise different options for hitting net zero goals based on the decarbonisation levers selected.
- Implement different timeframes: forecast from the current year over any timeframe (e.g. to 2030 or 2050).
- See dynamic visualisations: projections are updated instantly as decarbonisation levers are applied and adjusted.
- Forecast by travel mode: select individual travel modes, or apply across an entire program.
- Link forecasts to current targets: overlay net zero goals and trajectories from the Thrust Calculator to view forecasts and targets all in one place.
Travel Policy Levers
- Cabin class policy: set time- or distance-based thresholds for when travellers are permitted to take First, Business or Premium Economy flights.
- Air-to-rail switch: explore the impact of shifting travel mode on highest volume flight routes.
- Air route optimisation: model potential emissions saved from more carbon-efficient flights on the same routes.
- Travel volume reduction: understand how volume reduction could impact the path to net zero.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Carbon Removal Cost Modelling
- Predict future costs: Calculate quantities needed over time to meet sustainability goals, and model costs based on volume requirements and changing market prices.
- Travel policy and cost interaction: understand how using wider ‘Travel Policy Levers’ to control emissions might result in a greater or lesser requirement for SAF.
Industry Trend Integration
- Apply different industry scenarios: model expected future industry trends in forecasts, researched by our in-house advisory team of climate policy experts, such as global EV transition impacts, or incorporate aircraft fuel efficiency improvements.
