What is carbon footprint? What is carbon offset? How can Hospitality organizations calculate its carbon footprint? Hoteliers representing more than 15,000 properties have agreed to adopt a standardized system for measuring carbon footprints that were set a year ago by two global tourism organizations looking to boost environmental awareness within the tourism industry. Marriott International, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Worldwide and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) are among the more than 20 companies that will use the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative established in mid-2012 by the London-based International Tourism Partnership and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).

1. Carbon Footprint

2. WHAT IS CARBON FOOTPRINT?
The total amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions
produced to directly and indirectly support human
activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon
dioxide (CO2).
It is expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). It
accounts for all six Kyoto emissions:
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Methane (CH4)
• Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
• Hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs)
• Per fluorocarbons (PFCs)
• Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
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3. Flying from San Francisco to Boston, for example,
would generate some 1,300 kilograms of
greenhouse gases per passenger each way, while
driving would account for only 930 kilograms per
vehicle.
Methane emission from ruminant livestock (meat
and dairy products) is currently estimated to be
around 100 million tonnes of methane each year
and, after rice agriculture, represents the biggest
man-made methane source.
For many of us, a common response to this statistic
is, “Oh, I never fly, and I don’t own a medium-sized
car, I don’t eat meat every day …”
http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalc
ulator/index.htm#
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4. Production of
raw materials
Distribution of
raw materials
Distribution of
products and
retail
Consumption
Re-
use/recycling/
disposal
The organization
Organizational footprint
Product footprint
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5. ORGANIZATIONAL CARBON FOOTPRINT
QUANTIFYING
GHG EMISIONS
UNDERSTAND
HOW YOUR
ORGANIZATION
CONTRIBUTES TO
GLOBAL EMISSION
WHAT
OPPORTUNITIES
YOU HAVE TO
REDUCE YOUR
EMISSIONS
DEVELOP CARBON
PLAN
1
2
3
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6. THE GREEN HOUSE PROTOCOL STANDARD
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7. WHY CALCULATE YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL CARBON
FOOTPRINT?
MANAGE YOUR GHG EMISSIONS AND MAKE
REDUCTIONS OVER THE TIME
REPORT EMISSIONS AS A PART OF YOUR
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONIBILITY ,
MARKETING OR DEMANDING CUSTOMERS
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8. HOW TO CALCULATE AN ORGANIZATIONAL
CARBON FOOTPRINT
1
•Decide on the method to be followed
2
•Define organizational and operational boundaries
3
•Collect the data
4
•Apply emissions factors
5
•Verify the results (optional)
6
•Verify that you have taken action to reduce your emissions
(optional)
GHG
protocol
Scopes?
kWh, fuel..
CO2e
Third party
Third party
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9. WHY COMMUNICATING YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL
CARBON FOOTPRINT?
REPORTING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
(AND INDEPENDENTLY CERTIFIED)
REST OF
STAKEHOL
DERS
CUSTOMERS
EMPLOYEES
1. Make sure the data is presented
transparently (six previous steps)
2. Communicating internally can
help to engage employees in the
process of carbon reduction
3. Communicating externally –in
your CSR report for example-
demonstrates that you are
concerned with the impact your
business is having on the
environment
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10. It is a certificate
REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINTS BY PURCHASING ‘CARBON OFFSETS’
Many Carbon emissions for the hospitality industry simply cannot be
avoided. Guests must fly, drive or take the train to the hotel. Guest
staying in hotels..
I.e. purchase renewable electricity, donate to reforestation projects…
WHAT IS CARBON OFFSET?

11. HOTEL CARBON MEASURE INITIATIVE 1.0
METHODOLOGY
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12. Carbon Footprint

13. APPROACHES TO
MEASURE CARBON
EMISSIONS WITHIN
HOTELS VARIED
WIDELY
CONFUSIONS AMONG
CUSTOMERS, PARTICULARLY
CORPORATE CLIENTS
OPPORTUNITY TO
UNITE TOWARDS A
COMMON
METHODOLOGY
FOLLOWING THE GHG
PROTOCOL STANDARDS
OPPORTUNITY TO
MOVING FORWARD
AND MAXIMIZING THE
TAKE UP OF THE
METHODOLOGY BY A
BROADER RANGE OF
HOTELS
PROBLEMS OPPORTUNITIES
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14. BOUNDARIES
GHG emissions result from a variety of activities within the hotel itself such as
heating, cooling, lighting, catering, and laundry operations, IT and the use of
electronic equipment
Restaurants
Meeting
spaces
Shops
Casinos Golf Courses
Spas
Garden
Space
Fitness
Centres
‘Back of the
House’
Rooms and
hotel indoor
Laundry (also
outsource)
Scopes 1 + 2
Private Space
(apartments)
Scope 3
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15. DATA REQUIREMENTS
THE MAIN PIECES OF DATA NECESSARY FOR A HOTEL
TO CALCULATE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT FOR A
GUEST ROOM AND MEETING SPACE ARE AS
FOLLOWS:
Total number of:
(1) guest rooms+
corridors
(2) meeting facility
space
(sqft or sqm)
Total number of:
(1) Occupied rooms
(2) Total energy
consumption
(reporting year)
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16. DATA REQUIREMENTS
ENERGY CONSUMPTION MAY COME
FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
• Fuels consumed on-site such as natural
gas, oil and other fuels
• Purchased electricity
• Mobile fuels burned (from vehicles and
landscaping equipment)
• Purchased steam and chilled water
• District heating or municipal power
Note: If the hotel purchases ‘green’ electricity (i.e. electricity at a ‘green’ tariff),
it can disclose this information, but it cannot deduct the amount of green
electricity used from its total energy consumption. Onsite renewable energy
(e.g. from solar or wind) reduce the amount of energy that a hotel needs to
purchase and therefore reduces its energy consumption and carbon emissions
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17. DATA REQUIREMENTS
Outsourced laundry
Take information from laundry supplier. For example, if your supplier’s total
electricity consumption for the year is 100,000 kWh and you represent 10%
of their business (by volume or revenue), your share electricity
consumption is 10,000 kWh
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18. DATA REQUIEREMENTS
Mobile fuels
Transportation vehicles (cars, shuttle buses),
landscaping equipment etc. Only need to
calculate if the hotel operates transportation
vehicles
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19. DATA REQUIREMENTS
Refurbishments
The methodology calculates GHG emissions during
"normal operations". Conducting extensive refurbishments
during the reporting year may falsify the results that will
be used in the disclosure period once the refurbishments
are completed. Routine refurbishments do not have to be
disclosed or accounted for. However, hotels undertaking
major refurbishments should disclose this information.
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20. DATA REQUIREMENTS
Carbon Offsets
The methodology measures the GHG efficiency at
which a hotel provides guest rooms and meeting
space to its customers. If the hotel purchases carbon
offsets, it can disclose this information, but it cannot
deduct the amount of emissions that is offset from its
total GHG emissions
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21. MELIA Hotels
-6.3% compared with 2011 figures
carbon footprint
240,654 tonnes of CO2 emitted
NH Hotels’ carbon footprint is 153,865 tonnes
of CO2. A total of 55% comes from energy
consumption and 45% from fuel consumption
Marriott 355,000 CO2 tonnes emitted
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