Dusit Thani Dubai secures eco certification
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Dusit Thani Dubai has joined industry leaders from more than 65 countries by being awarded EarthCheck Silver Certified status. To gain this status, the hotel had to report its environmental footprint to independent auditors and adhere to internationally recognised standards of Best Practice.During the process, Dusit Thani Dubai was also required to submit a year’s worth of operational data which was benchmarked against industry Best Practice. The data was then measured against a number of key indicators such as energy and water consumption, total waste production, and community commitment. “By taking a scientific approach to measuring the effectiveness of their sustainability practices, Dusit Thani Dubai was able to identify where they were out-performing others and where room for improvement remained,” explained EarthCheck CEO Stewart Moore.”Achieving certification is not an easy task and many organisations do not make it past the benchmarking stage. Securing a highly-ranked benchmarking result requires a strong commitment across all levels of an organisation and the imbedding of sustainability principles into all policies and procedures,” Moore concluded.For economies reliant on travel and tourism, EarthCheck’s benchmarking data provides the only historical record of the global environmental impacts of the industry over the past 12 years. More importantly, it rates the effectiveness of industry efforts to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG) and conserve natural resources at a project-by-project level.
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