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November Issue 2018 Vol. 2 ISSUE 10 November 2018 PLANET POST PRAISE SIX SENSES FIJI BAGS CLIMATE THE HOTEL THAT ACTION AWARD DONATES PROFITS The hotel is honored to have been awarded top spot for a range of Supporting charities and environmental initiatives that are practiced within the resort. Check it out projects, this hotel in Mysore has carved its way 06 to respect from guests. Read more here 07 PERFORMANCE PRIORITY PRIME MOVERS HOTELS, TICK YOUR 12 YEARS TO LIMIT THE ULTIMATE PROGRESS! CLIMATE CHANGE EXAMPLE OF Helping you conduct a quick analyses, IPCC’s recent report warns the GREEN HOTEL IS here's what your checklist should look world. Check out highlights here... HERE! like...Know more here 10 04 09 Forthcoming - GreenOtels Conference & Awards November 30, 2018 | 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Marigold Hotel | Hyderabad www.greenotels.com Our aim has been to make GreenOtels as work in championing the International Solar collaborative as possible, believing that a Alliance and promoting new areas of levels diversity of perspectives enriches the work. of cooperation on environmental action. We have reached out to experts, to Funnily though, India stands 177 (out of 180 professionals and promoters in hospitality as well as companies engaged in sustainable countries) on the Environmental development to help make the big shift Performance Index, 2018. In 2016, India towards a sustainable future. was ranked 141 on the same index. Minakshi Agarwal KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATES Bharat Malkani, E.C. FHRAI Moreover, in 2013, India had six out of the LOW BUSINESS CB Ramkumar, Our Native Village One of the highlights of the recently top 10 most polluted cities in the world. Garish Oberoi, President, FHRAI concluded WTM (World Travel Market) this Today, we have 11 out of the top 12.India FOR TOURISM AND Niranjan Khatri, iSambhav Param Kanampilly, Concept Hospitality year was the focus on 'Responsible Travel' also has the dubious distinction of having HOSPITALITY Sanjay Sethi, ITC Hotels where Derek Hanekom, Minister of Tourism, the maximum number of environmental Steve Borgia, President, ESOI South Africa, talked of the Cape Town crisis conflicts in the world, with the Environmental INDUSTRY IN and shared that having implemented a host Justice Atlas (an international database) ADVISORY PANEL LAKSHADWEEP Amitabh Tyagi, The Taj Hotels of water saving measures, the city has recording 271 cases in India in 2017. Arun Bahadur, The Oberoi Hotels reduced consumption by more than 50% in Ashish Rakheja, AEON Consultants just three years. “From adversity the city has Having said that, to give Modi sarkar credit, For most of us, thinking about Lakshadweep HC Vinayaka, ITC Hotels islands conjures images of pristine beaches, become a global leader in best water there has been a push for electric vehicles Sanjeev Saxena, DLF Home Developers clear blue seas and fascinating coral reefs Shankareswaran Jayaraj, Reliance practice.” He continued on the topic of and a massive boost in clean and renewable that are home to a diversity of plant and Sunil Relia, JLL Building Operations climate change and over-tourism in a tone of energy generation. animal life. This might not be far from reality Vikram Choubal, Marriott International but recent research questions how long will urgency declaring, “without massively these serene islands remain the same. CORE COMMITTEE changed behaviour the world stands to On the other hand in the Modi's regime of 4 BENGALURU destroy itself,” he said, “we are perilously years and a few months, his ministers have A nearly two-decade-long study by the Ajay Nayak, ITC Gardenia close to the point where carbon emissions neglected forest and wildlife sectors with Oceans and Coasts Program of the Nature Bhaskar Masineni, The Leela Palace Conservation Foundation’s (NCF) has found will irreversibly change the symbiotic life providing little or no direction for a national Jagadish Itagi, The Ritz Carlton that the absolute coral cover in these islands Murali Panicker, Taj Bangalore systems that sustain life. If we don’t do this forest policy. Activists allege that the has reduced from 51.6% in 1998 to 11% in CHENNAI we will remain on the tragic path of being the government is diluting laws without public 2017, a staggering 40% decline. They have N Ramamoorthy, ITC Grand Chola Hotel architects of our own destruction...It’s up to consultation, undermining institutions and found that the alarming rate of coral mortality HYDERABAD and their shifting species compositions, all of us to spread the responsible tourism trying everything in their power to make it Ashok Hemrajani, Minerva Group combined with their slow rate of recovery, DELHI message loudly, clearly and far and wide.” easier for corporates to exploit natural could severely limit their ability to resist future Anil Kumar, The Imperial S resources ranging from forests, wildlife, disturbances due to climate change. Neeraj Kaushik, The Claridges R This prompted me to take a look at the coasts and thereby making the air pollution Reefs are infamously complex and dynamic Rahul Prabhakar, ITC Maurya systems, but the study shows that in the Rothin Banerjee, Taj Palace E progress that India might be making in this and waste scenario worse. V Lakshadweep, a changing community of Suman Majumder, Hyatt Regency direction, after all, The United Nations corals in a warming environment has led to a JAIPUR Environment Programme (UNEP) has For us in the tourism business the four-fold drop in recovery rates since 1998. M Kannan, Oberoi Rajvilas O Siddhesh Khatu, ITC Rajputana selected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and implication of this is seeing our businesses M The situation has led to having adverse Vinay Paliwal, Jai Mahal Palace French President Emmanuel Macron for this getting washed away in floods or wither consequences on 70,000 people who live on MUMBAI E year's “Champions of the Earth” award—the away in heat and dust but as we sit in our the island, most of whose livelihood is fishing Nilesh Mhatre, JW Marriott along with the tourism and hospitality industry Prashant Pawar, Oberoi Hotels & Resorts M UN's highest environmental honour. increasingly muggy and smoky offices we I that will gradually witness a decline in could at least hope for better times - what Prashant Vaidya, Hotel Sofitel business. The study indicates danger to not Praveen K Sharma, Renaissance R Both have been selected in the "Policy with the unveiling of the tallest structure in AIN POINT just nature but also to human activities that Shailesh Kumar, JW Marriott P P will be gone for a toss! PERSPECTIVE Leadership" category for their pioneering the world - ‘The Statue of Unity'! 2 Vol. 2 ISSUE 10 November 2018 | 3 As efforts towards the same, hotels can be WE HAVE ONLY 12 YEARS TO LIMIT CLIMATE GREENING THE smart in choosing their suppliers chain and partner with brands like Eminence Organic CHANGE CATASTROPHE, WARNS UN SUPPLY CHAIN... Skin Care and EcoSoft. 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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • Corals would be 99% lost at the higher of (IPCC) say urgent and unprecedented the two temperatures, but more than 10% Similarly, housekeeping products should keep changes are needed to reach the target, have a chance of surviving if the lower target the venues clean and toxic free, rather than which they say is affordable and feasible is reached. using harsh chemicals that hurts us as well as although it lies at the most ambitious end of our environment. Products offered by EcoSoft the Paris agreement pledge to keep The IPCC maps out four pathways to achieve are made using all-natural ingredients and are temperatures between 1.5C and 2C. 1.5C, with different combinations of land use designed to break down specific organics, and technological change. Reforestation is dirt, and stain effectively. 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