WORLDHOTELS' Brochner Group Becomes World's First Carbon Neutral Hotel Group
OCTOBER 14, 2008. Brochner Hotels in Copenhagen, the WORLDHOTELS affiliated Danish hotel group has become the world's first "carbon neutral" hotel group. The family-owned Danish group comprises four hotels that have set a global benchmark as the first to become 100 per cent climate-neutral. They are the Hotel Kong Arthur, Ibsens Hotel, Hotel Danmark and the famous Hotel Fox, nominated several times for best idea, best design, best innovation and more.
"A great number of major international hotel chains are working actively on measures to reduce energy and climate impact with ambitious goals of becoming climate neutral one day. However, we are actually -- the first chain in the world - as confirmed by the International Hotel and Restaurant Association - which has actually achieved it," said co-owner and General Manager, Kirsten Brochner.
The Brochner Hotels' CO2 neutrality has been achieved via a 5-step Climate Plan that includes among others acquisition and destruction of quotas through the European system for trade with CO2 quotas. The trade-off equalled the hotel chain's entire CO2 emission in 2007 and 2008.
Consequently, the total limit for CO2 emission in the EU has been lowered and quota prices forced up, pressurizing energy companies and the industry to find new and more climate-friendly ways to produce energy. Kirsten Brochner's motivation behind the hotel chain's climate move is "primarily a wish to take personal responsibility for solving global climate problems." Brochner Hotels hopes to persuade other hotels to join the global climate struggle.
Interested groups and individual hotels can learn more from the hotel group's website: www.co2neutral-hotels.com.
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