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Accor on a sustainable Planet
Accor is launching a new sustainable development programme, Planet 21, under which it has made 21 commitments and a similar number of goals for the year 2015.
These include employees trained in disease prevention in 95% of hotels; 80% of properties promoting balanced meals; 85% of hotels using eco-labelled products; a 15% reduction in water consumption; a 10% decrease in energy use, and 85% use of eco-labelled products at Accor’s owned and leased hotels worldwide.
Accor’s hotel customers will encounter an array of messages encouraging them to contribute to the hotel’s environmental actions.
PLANET 21 covers all of the group’s environmental, social and community investment actions and aims to place sustainability at the core of its business strategy worldwide.
Accor will actively engage its hotel owners to bring more franchised and managed hotels into the PLANET 21 programme – improving their sustainability performance and developing buildings that are constructed and operated in accordance with internationally recognised sustainability best practice.
Accor will also share its commitments with suppliers, working with them to develop more sustainable products and services.
Hotels can only use the PLANET 21 messages if they comply with a certain level of sustainable development performance, assessed according to a list of 65 actions, or if they achieve an internationally recognised external environmental certification.
The name PLANET 21 is a reference to Agenda 21, the environmental action plan signed by 173 heads of state at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit,
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