Products – Hotel Buildings

Battle against climate change and progress towards decarbonization, minimizing our environmental footprint while developing more sustainable hotels through buildings renovation.

Environmental certification program

NH Hotel Group has individual certification for 53% of the hotels in the portfolio, giving a total of 184 certified hotels out of the 350 hotels in the portfolio.

Plan SBT 2030.

Minor Hotels Europe & Americas’ efforts to combat climate change are part of the “SBT 2030 Plan” which sets out the levers of action to reach the goal of reducing its absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 46.2% in 2030 by comparison with 2019 levels and its absolute Scope 3 emissions, derived from purchased goods and services, capital goods, fuel and energy related activities, waste from operations, upstream leased assets and franchises by 27.5% over that same timeframe.

The company has also committed to reduce its absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 90% in 2050, again compared to the 2019 base level. The Science Based Target initiative, SBTi, has validated the company’s net zero target. Indeed, both targets have been scientifically validated and approved by SBTi, the world’s main corporate climate action organisation.

With these new targets for 2030 and 2050, the hotel chain is now aligned with the scientific thresholds recommended for businesses in the Paris Agreement in order to keep global warming at no more than 1.5 degrees centigrade relative to pre-industrial levels.

The five levers of action on which efforts to reach the goal will primarily be applied are:

Energy efficiency plan.

Minor Hotels Europe & Americas has an Energy Efficiency Plan, which groups together “energy efficiency” projects, considering all those that can improve energy consumption in the hotels, as well as the associated costs:

• Changes in equipment
• Investments related to control of installations: building energy management systems, update of meters and improvements in lighting.
• Actions on building façades that represent improvements in the envelope and in insulation.

CapEx line for projects that not only seeks an economic but also an environmental return. Some of these projects are the elimination of fossil fuels and an increase in renewable energies.