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Hotel operator Accor has created a calculator designed to help corporate events organisers track the carbon impact of conferences, based on the number of participants, the number of nights they stay, and even what type of food is served.
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The company says the interactive Carbon Optimizer allows customers to choose menus and tailor events based on their carbon footprint, encouraging them to adopt more responsible choices.
A number of hotel chains offer customers the chance to offset the carbon impact of events, but Accor claims to have taken a more granular approach to measuring the footprint of an event based on the embedded as well as direct emissions of a conference.
Using the data in Accor’s environmental footprint report, published in December, the Carbon Optimizer can give the carbon footprint of not just emissions from production processes and energy consumption of hotel equipment, but also waste treatment, paper production, and food, while also factoring in how big the rooms used are and whether meals are buffet or table-served.
Source: BusinessGreen