SHA announces ‘Pathway to Net Positive Hospitality for the Planet’

The Sustainable Hospitality Alliance has announced the launch of the “Pathway to Net Positive Hospitality for the Planet”, a guide aimed at helping businesses achieve net positive environmental impact.

To achieve this goal, it said the pathway provides a” practical, four-stage guidance framework as a free resource that supports all parts of the hospitality value chain to progress in a cohesive, strategic manner”.

The Pathway outlines increasing environmental ambitions and scope across the four stages which take account of the different levels of sustainability maturity across the industry.

The Pathway to Net Positive Hospitality has both been created in direct collaboration with the hospitality industry and its value chain, in consultation with environmental and industry experts.

Wolfgang M. Neumann, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance chair, said: “Our Pathway fills the current vacuum of a co-ordinated and focussed strategic plan across the hospitality industry to tackle the urgently needed climate actions. It is a practical tool for any hotel, no matter their starting point, to obtain guidance on how to prioritise and sequence targeted and measurable climate actions.

“The Alliance wants to encourage all hotels to embrace the journey all the way to net positive. We are spearheading the dialogue beyond having ‘zero’ impact and setting a vision for what we can be putting back into the natural world with a lasting ‘positive’ impact on our planet and its people.”