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Radisson first hotel group to offer carbon negative meetings
Radisson Hotel Group says it is the world’s first hotel group to make all meetings and events across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio carbon negative.
For every event taking place at its participating hotels, Radisson Hotel Group is offsetting double the carbon footprint.
For meetings booked between 18 October 2021 and 31 January 2022 and taking place before 31March 2022, Carbon Negative. Planet Positive will set a new sustainability standard.
The program allows the offsetting of double the CO2 emissions from meetings and events free of charge to the client, making them carbon negative.
The initiative forms part of the a wider Responsible Business program which targets reducing the carbon footprint by 30%, and which aims to set science-based targets.
Since the launch of the 100% Carbon Neutral Meetings program, the group has offset over 30,300 tons of CO2 at no cost to its clients.
Carbon Negative, Planet Positive meetings complement Radisson’s Hybrid Meetings solutions which launched in 2020.
"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," said Eric de Neef, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Branding & Commercial Officer.
For each meeting, the carbon footprint is calculated using the HCMI methodology and then offset through projects which are Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) recognized.
These projects are in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and include: a clean cooking and safe water program in Kenya, wind farm projects in Turkey, India, and the US to generate green electricity, a forest protection program in Peru to reduce deforestation sustainably, and a biogas project in rural China.
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