The World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance has announced a new set of environmental, social and governance metrics to standardise sustainability measurement within the hospitality industry.
Introduced at the COP29 Climate Change Conference in Baku this week, the alliance’s Universal Sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) aim to provide hotels with “a consistent, transparent and verifiable method for assessing and reporting their sustainability performance”.
The ‘first wave’ of KPIs is focused on environmental impact and include metrics to measure carbon footprint across Scope 1, 2, and 3 CO2 emissions, water consumption, energy usage and waste management as well as a denominator utilising guest nights and/or…
