The Radisson Hotel Group recently announced that it’s now
the world’s first hotel group that is set to make all meetings and events
across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio carbon negative.
For every event that will take place at its participating
hotels, Radisson Hotel Group will offset double the carbon footprint with an
aim to ensure that every meeting has a positive impact on the environment.
For meetings that are booked between October 18 2021 and
January 31 2022 and taking place before March 2022, Carbon Negative. Planet
Positive will be setting a new sustainability standard in the global
hospitality industry.
The program allows clients to host meetings in a sustainable
way by offsetting double the CO2 emissions from meetings and events, free of
charge to the client, making meetings that take place during this period at
participating hotels carbon negative.
Carbon Negative. Planet Positive reinforces the Group’s 100%
Carbon Neutral meetings offering, in place across the Group’s 1 600 hotels
worldwide since 2019. The initiative forms part of the Group’s wider
Responsible Business programme, which targets reducing the Group’s carbon
footprint by 30% with an aim to set science-based targets.
Since the launch of the 100% Carbon Neutral Meetings
programme, the Group has offset over 30,300 tons of CO2 at no cost to its
clients, which is the equivalent of removing more than 6,500 fuel-driven cars
off the road.
Carbon Negative, Planet Positive meetings complement the
Group’s Hybrid Meetings solutions, which launched in 2020 and offer owners and
guests the flexibility and space optimisation they require to better meet the
rapid lifestyle changes of today’s travellers.
“The upcoming COP26 conference will see world leaders come
together to discuss climate change which needs all our attention. At Radisson
Hotel Group, we are constantly reviewing how we as a global business can
influence positive climate action, and how we can encourage the hospitality
industry to push the boundaries on green meetings and events.
We are proud to be pioneering this initiative and trust that
meeting organisers around the globe recognise the positive impact they can have
on the environment as face-to-face meetings increase,” says Eric de Neef,
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Branding & Commercial Officer.
“Carbon Negative. Planet Positive allows you to make your
meetings carbon negative and your impact on the planet positive.
With the return of business travel, now is the time to have
a positive impact. For Radisson Hotel Group, it is important that we offset
carbon emissions according to the highest quality standards and in line with
the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is why we select offsetting
projects that are not only good for the environment but also socially relevant.
This initiative plays a key role in helping us achieve our
Responsible Business targets to protect people, planet and community,” says
Inge Huijbrechts, Global Senior Vice President Sustainability, Security and
Corporate Communications.
For each meeting, the carbon footprint is calculated using
the HCMI methodology and then offset through projects that are Gold Standard –
or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)-recognised.
These projects combat climate change and contribute to
sustainable development in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) and include a clean cooking and safe water programme in Kenya; wind farm
projects in Turkey, India, and the US to generate green electricity; a forest
protection programme in Peru to reduce deforestation sustainably; and a biogas
project in rural China.
In addition, members of Radisson’s Radisson Rewards loyalty
programme can also choose to redeem their loyalty points to offset their stay.
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