Flix announced its climate strategy and reflects on the milestones completed within its framework ahead of Earth Day on April 22.

Representing a key component of its wider ESG strategy, Flix’s climate strategy rests on four major principles – avoid, reduce, offset, and engage – and provides a framework for action within the company’s vision of offering sustainable collective travel solutions, with full decarbonization as its long-term goal.

"We have always wanted to be at the forefront of a long-lasting transformation in mobility, with a view to providing as many people as possible with smart and affordable alternatives to private cars," said André Schwämmlein, founder/CEO of Flix. "With a progressive climate strategy and multiple, cross-sectoral projects to enforce it, we have set out for this change. Now, we count on decision-makers to support us throughout the process by securing the right infrastructure and enabling scalability of sustainable solutions along the supply chain with concrete and tangible measures."

Flix’s climate strategy

• Avoid: Relevant data come with respect to CO2 avoidance: just by choosing Flix’s modern vehicles over other options, passengers saved over 800,000 tons of CO2 in 2022 alone. Besides, Flix is limiting its impact by maximizing the load factor of its fleet with the use of technology, thus optimizing the number of vehicles on duty.

• Reduce: As to CO2 reduction, a key lever is represented by fleet transformation through testing alternative drives and fuels. Along with piloting the first long-distance e-Buses and testing solar energy and biogas, Flix is also involved in the development of a hydrogen fuel cell coach via the funded project HyFleet, in line with its technology-open approach. 

• Offset: The passengers themselves are a part of this evolution towards more sustainable mobility options: since 2015, over 98,000 tons of CO₂ have been offset, equaling over 3.7 bn km traveled by FlixBus.

• Engage: While the fleet transformation process is supported by strategic cross-sector partnerships like that with Daimler Buses, customers’ engagement in CO2 offsetting and encouraging them to choose collective mobility can also produce a positive impact.

"While welcoming the EU’s commitment to fighting climate change, we believe it is paramount that all parties unite and cooperate even more closely for the sake of the communities, actively supporting the evolution of collective mobility to make it the obvious solution for passengers," added Schwämmlein. "Together with our partners, we are on our way to foster decarbonization of mobility and are eager to take part and invest in this transformation, but we expect institutions to be walking with us on this path."

Flix commits to SBTi and UN Global Compact

The prioritization of sustainability as a core guiding value for the business, with ESG building a leading scheme for all its actions, has recently translated into Flix’s commitments.

The company has committed to the Science-Based Target initiative, which provides companies with a clearly defined path to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals. As of early 2023, over 4,800 companies committed to SBTi, and over 2,500 had their emissions reduction targets approved. With this commitment, Flix will set specific targets for near-term emissions reduction by 2032, as a first goal along its path to full decarbonization.

Besides, Flix is taking part in the UN Global Compact, involving over 22,000 participants from more than 160 countries.

Flix will also soon publish its first voluntary ESG report for the year 2022 in line with the global standard Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). This will help the company investigate and measure its sustainability achievements, as well as identify future steps to improve its practices further in all the areas covered by the report: Environment, Social, and Governance.