Glossary
The terms we use, explained.
Short definitions for meeting travel, CO2 and reporting, and what each term means at Convien.
A to Z
Seven terms.
- Credit
- A calculation is shown in whole credits; the euro price in your offer is binding. The free trial covers 1 event with up to 10 attendees, 5 comparable cities and 1 date, one trial per company.Request your price
- Door to door
- The whole trip of a participant, from their origin to the meeting place, including every leg on the way.
- ETS2
- The second EU emissions trading system, which puts a price on CO2 from fuel for road transport and buildings. Less CO2 from business travel prepares you for ETS2.
- Meeting place finder
- A tool that finds the best location for a meeting or event from where the participants travel, comparing candidate cities by travel cost, travel time and CO2. Meeting Place Finder is also the name of our product.Meeting Place Finder
- RFI
- Radiative forcing index: a factor for the additional warming effect of aircraft emissions at high altitude, beyond the CO2 itself. Our example calculation in the product uses an RFI factor of 2.7.
- Scope 3
- Indirect greenhouse gas emissions in a company’s value chain, as defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Business travel is one of its categories. Our savings reports show the CO2 saved per meeting and per year for Scope 3 reporting.
- VDR standard
- The method of the VDR, the German business travel association, for calculating the CO2 of business travel. We calculate according to the VDR standard, with atmosfair emission data, so the results can be used in operational reporting.How we calculate