Sustainability standards need to be consolidated if progress is to be made on the climate crisis, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels' environmental director has said.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels' director of group corporate responsibility and sustainability has called for a consolidation of industry standards to help curb the global climate crisis.
As of 2014, there were 400 standards for measuring sustainability, according to the State of Sustainability Initiatives.Businesses need to be singing from the same hymn sheet if they want to make meaningful progress in combatting the climate crisis, said the environmental director of one of Asia's leading hotel groups, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels.
There are "too many" sustainability metrics out there and they are overwhelming the public and hindering progress, Lao told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Monday. "If we don't talk in one language, people are not going to understand what progress we're trying to achieve where we are in the journey." "If we can consolidate the definitions, it's much easier for us to tell our story ... not only to the public but also to the business community, who are going to be making these types of investments," she said.in Davos, Switzerland this week to discuss, among other things, striking a unified response to the intensifying climate crisis."Sustainable Luxury Vision 2020,"Lao noted that the luxury hotel chain, which has operations in Asia, the U.S.
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