Travel management start-up COCO+ has achieved B Corp certification, a milestone for the sustainability-focused company that incorporates the cost of offsetting business travel in its transaction fees.

The UK-based company is among just a handful of travel management companies with the certification, which evaluates products and services and assesses a company's overall social and environmental impact. These include Atlas Travel and Technology Group, which has operations in the US and UK, Bizaway in Italy, and Australia-based Reho Travel.?

COCO+ CEO and co-founder Neil Fincham-Dukes said from the company's very beginning, achieving B Corp status has been a ¡°key ambition¡±.

¡°Striving to build a truly ethical and sustainable business right from its very foundations has been core to our progress,¡± he said.?

While companies require a score of 80 to achieve B Corp status, the TMC said its score of 115.7 demonstrates its ¡°deep-rooted commitments¡± to responsible business practices.

The TMC is focused on educating customers on their Scope 3 carbon emissions and via its ¡®offset+ model¡¯ pays to offset more than the calculated emissions in order to ¡°make a real environmental difference¡±.

In April the the company began onboarding customers to its full-service booking platform, where emissions associated with business travel are offset through gold-standard ClimateCare projects worldwide.

On top of this, Fincham-Dukes said the company is also looking to establish a foundation to operate sustainability projects in the UK.

¡°We couldn¡¯t be prouder of the team we have built and the business we launched,¡± he added. ¡°There is so much more to come¡±.?