Sustainability is rising up the agenda for organisations and individuals alike, so it follows that the green credentials of mobility programmes are now coming under greater scrutiny. Yet ECA’s Global Mobility Now Survey showed that only 3% of organisations’ global mobility (GM) teams believe they are successful in achieving sustainability. This is unsurprising given that mobility is in the business of moving people around the world. However, whether it is through the choices of the business or the assignees themselves, there are ways to cut or minimise the impact of global mobility on the environment at each stage of the assignment process.