Green Growth 2050 has recently certified six Thailand-based Anantara hotels to its Global Standard. Each Hotel achieved greater than 80% compliance reaching GOLD Certification status.
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Minor International’s Hotel Group (MGH) has moved to further cement itself as one of the global leaders in sustainable tourism by implementing the Green Growth 2050 (GG2050) sustainability solution.
Green Growth 2050 was launched in January 2015 and has already established an impressive client base of participating hotels. The Minor Hotel Group has committed it’s 40 Anantara brand hotels to the Green Growth 2050 program with many already undergoing Certification. A further 35 Minor hotels are currently implementing the Performance Measurement solution planned for live operation in February 2016. This will bring the total number of Minor Hotels to 75 across 6 major brands across 18 countries using elements of the GG2050 program.
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Green Growth 2050, the ‘next-generation’ sustainability solution has released the world’s first cloud-based CSR Project reporting initiative specific to the Travel & Tourism industry that brings together both impact analysis and reporting across the enterprise.
Today’s corporate Travel & Tourism enterprises are looking beyond the legacy Certification systems of yesterday to solutions that support main-stream industry programs including the UN Global Compact, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Global Reporting Initiative and other enterprise based sustainability drivers.
Shareholders, investors and other stakeholders demand today’s global leaders provide accurate and verifiable information beyond even triple bottom line detail.
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An Article from The Guardian by Green Growth 2050 Chairman, Professor Geoff Lipman
The SDGs reframe the Earth summit agreements into a new global blueprint for the 21st century – a “transformational agenda” for sustainable development to 2030 and beyond.
It’s a long journey, with each country, locality and individual coming from a different starting point, with unique capacities and reasons to change. Ultimately we have to get to the same end point by 2050 – the date, where science and politics are converging on livable global temperature stabilisation. With new multi-billion dollar funds, legal frameworks and collaborations to support that change.
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By Professor Geoff Lipman, Chairman, Green Growth 2050
The Summer School again brought together some 40 thinkers and learners from every continent, for a week of discussions, which included some 20 interactive lectures on core sustainability challenges and opportunities for society generally and for Travel & Tourism specifically. It included a visit to the National Park, Hoge Kempen, led by its charismatic Director Ignace Schops, an introduction to the European Parliament and the Commission’s 2020 Horizons research program, as well as an engaging keynote on renewable energy futures, by Tom Goldberg MBE, the Chairman of SunArk. The faculty included academic, industry, NGO and community specialists as well as experts in technology, marketing and biodiversity conservation.
2015 will be a year when global attention on green growth will intensify under the pressure of 3 Heads of State Summits to establish Sustainable Development Goals, Resilience Financing, and critically Carbon Targets.
The Paris UNFCCC meeting in December will introduce a reduction system that will become legally enforceable by 2020 and will oblige all industries – including Travel & Tourism to develop adaptation programs. But the other Summits will also increase related environmental and social impact pressures to measure and improve a wide variety of social inclusion, local community engagement, and resource management areas – historically grouped as CSR issues.
Green growth is a subject I’ve been involved in for 40 years in international leadership and academia – and last year, with Vision CSR headed by Wayne McKinnon, an experienced professional in environmental operations we decided to try to create a new management system – GreenGrowth2050. It has been designed to support companies who really want to go beyond traditional tourism environmental certification and build a strong long term CSR platform that is in line with global good practice.
GreenGrowth2050 has been carefully constructed to cover all elements in existing tourism sustainability programs plus key elements from key UN and International agencies dealing with environment and social responsibility for business. It has also taken into account the changes that leading edge companies around the world are making inside organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. It’s why we label it as beyond travel – despite its central tourism green growth focus.
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At the plenary Session at the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism (IIPT) symposium in Johannesburg the Chairman of Green Growth 2050, Geoffrey Lipman thinks Peace Through Tourism is driven by a Regional and Sectoral Perspectives and a war we can win.
He feels the issues in the world are getting more complex and there are great challenges in coexistence. It might get increasingly more difficult to travel and the economy could be getting even tougher. He feels this is a hump to get over. We have a war that everyone can acknowledge is happening, and this war is about sustainability. One issue is climate resilience – we must come to terms with that. Our industry is failing badly and is not in the same position as other industries. What will happen when bush fires become semi permanent and flooding increases? 1% of the world’s population have 90% of the wealth, and there is something drastically wrong with this. There needs to be inclusive development.
Vanilla Islands of the Indian Ocean looks at low carbon and sustainable future as a region when they meet Geoffrey Lipman of GG2050 & SUN Project for Green Growth
Representatives of the Vanilla Islands met at the Seychelles Pavillion at ITB to plan the future collaboration for their member states in this unique tropical paradise destination.
Hosted by Minister Alain St.Ange (Seychelles) and also attended by Minister Duval the Deputy Prime Minister & Tourism Minister of Mauritius, as well as Vola Raveloson (Madagascar) and Michel Ahamed (Mayotte). Pascal Viroleau the CEO of the Vanilla Islands was also present for this meeting that took place on the sidelines of ITB 2015 in Berlin.
LOS ANGELES, California, USA – Civic Resource Group Int’l (CRG) today announced the appointment of Geoffrey Lipman as Special Advisor, Global Travel & Tourism. CRG has also entered a strategic partnership with Greenearth.travel of which Mr. Lipman is Chairman.
Professor Lipman will work with CRG specifically to promote green growth and sustainability related to Travel & Tourism, which is a key component of CRG’s international expansion plans in the government and related civic sectors in 2015. Lipman’s stature and experience in the industry will reinforce the Company’s commitment to promote Sustainable Tourism on a global level.
February 23, 2015 – The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) is pleased to announce that GreenEarth.travel and VisionCSR’s Green Growth 2050 sustainable tourism certification program has achieved ‘GSTC Recognized’ status. The awarded status affirms Green Growth’s commitment to promote sustainable tourism products and services.
Green Growth 2050 has been developed to meet the needs of tourism and travel businesses seeking today’s solutions to the issues driving social, cultural and environmental change. It is designed to allow organizations to, not only undertake certification through third-party assessment, but also accurately measure their global impact across a framework of over 200 CSR and sustainability related metrics. The addition of business intelligence and analytics provides Green Growth 2050 customers with new insights into their organization on both an individual basis and across their entire portfolio.
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