If left unchecked, international aviation could eat up over a fifth of the world’s entire carbon budget by 2050... yet it has been largely left out of global efforts to tackle climate change.
Rather than offsetting, AccorHotels's insetting approach focusses its CSR initiatives on rehabilitating the very areas the business depends on for survival.
While the airline industry is quick to reassure that technical solutions, such as improved materials, engines and biofuels, and market-based measures can provide a fix, new research has found these to be examples of “technology myths”.
Better Buildings Challenge SWAP invited energy management teams at Hilton and Whole Foods to tour each other’s businesses and exchange energy savings ideas.