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2021 — a year in review: Radisson Hotel Group’s responsible business milestones Radisson Hotel Group looks back on a year of successful Responsible Business initiatives, including being the world’s first hotel group to make meetings and events carbon-negative across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio, establishing and extending partnerships focused on health, safety and green energy, and the launch of the Global Sustainability Basics framework that will be implemented in 2022. By Inge Huijbrechts, global senior vice president sustainability, security and corporate communications for Radisson Hotel Group.
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adisson Hotel Group remains committed to its corporate responsibility targets as outlined in the 2020 Responsible Business Report, including the reduction of the company’s carbon and water footprint by 30 per cent by 2025, aligning with science-based emissions reduction targets, removing single-use plastics, and continuing to drive best practices in responsible consumption behaviour. 2021 marked a year of key milestones and innovative initiatives in the three pillars of Think People, Think Community and Think Planet.
Carbon Negative and Neutral Meetings Since 2019, Radisson Hotel Group has set the industry standard for carbonneutral meetings and has been the only hotel group that offsets the carbon footprint for every meeting and event at its hotels worldwide at no cost to delegates or organisers. In 2021, the group launched its Carbon Negative, Planet Positive initiative to make meetings and events across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio carbon negative by offsetting double the CO2 emissions. Since 2019, the Group has offset over 30,300
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