NH Hotel Group has committed to reducing carbon emissions all along its value chain by 20% by 2030, estimated to prevent the emission of more than 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The hotel group's target, which has been validated by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), is specifically to cut its scope 1, 2 and 3 (direct and indirect) greenhouse gas emissions across its entire business chain by 20% with respect to those registered in 2018.
SBTi is an alliance mobilising the world of business to take action against climate change, championed by CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute and World Wide Fund for Nature.
Rufino P?rez, chief operations officer & global transformation leader at the hotel group, said: "The fact that we have set a science-based target is going to help us advance towards a business model that is compatible with a low-carbon economy and allow us to take advantage of all of the attendant opportunities. Attainment of this milestone will imply accelerated and large-scale transformation in which we will involve all of our stakeholders. Our entire organisation is totally committed to meeting this target.
?We have been actively supporting climate change mitigation since 2007, since when we have managed to reduce our operations' carbon footprint by 67%. Moreover, in the last year, 70% of all of the energy we consumed came from renewable sources. However, now is the time to be even more ambitious with our sustainability targets.?
