At present, 18 Kempinski hotels have achieved VenueCheck verification, with an additional 12 in progress. Photo Credit: Kempinski Hotels
Kempinski Hotels has launched its Responsible Meetings & Events toolkit, aimed at helping meeting planners and organisers to assess and reduce the environmental impact of events.
Created by scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group EarthCheck, the programme includes a suite of solutions created in response to heightened regulatory demands placed on event planners, as well as the growing environmental expectations of delegates.
Core to the initiative is VenueCheck, a meetings management system that provides organisers with a checklist of actionable items to help reduce the environmental impact of events, and EventCalculator, which accurately estimates their carbon footprint.
VenueCheck provides hotels and other meeting venues with a verified sustainability management framework tailored to each individual meeting space within a property, allowing venue owners to assess and improve the sustainability of their event operations. Event planners will be able to determine an event’s impact based on the unique dimensions and other characteristics of the spaces used within the venue. In order to participate in VenueCheck, hotels must already hold EarthCheck certification.
EventCalculator provides an accurate estimate for an event’s total carbon footprint including energy consumption, water use and waste generation, and transportation emissions, to aid in compliance and reporting.
“We are proud to be working with EarthCheck, our long-term sustainability partner, to launch Responsible Meetings & Events by Kempinski across our constellation of beautiful havens,” says Barbara Muckermann, CEO, Kempinski Group.
“By providing event planners with a framework allowing them to calculate the potential environmental impact of their events, we are empowering them to make positive changes to the world.”