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Whilst the majority of property companies now have mechanisms in place to quantify the costs of decarbonisation, far fewer can quantify the risk and costs of inaction. A new open-source tool is now available to address this.

From Poitiers to Germany to the UK, residents left their own homes to book air-conditioned hotel rooms for several nights during the latest heatwave. Searches for rooms with air conditioning and pools surged across OTA platforms.

Sven Wiltink came to HITT in Brussels with something rare: an actual case study. Two renovated hotels, verified to a net zero standard, with a year of operational data behind them. The session that followed was one of the most engaged of the day.

If the heatwaves of the past decade were to recur, a leading credit insurer estimates that Germany could face losses of up to €112.5 billion by 2030.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN World Tourism Organisation have launched the "Recipe of Change" initiative to tackle a global sustainability challenge: food waste.

Following a successful pilot phase involving two hotels in Manchester and Oslo, the Radisson Hotel Group plans to expand its Verified Net Zero Hotels programme to 100 hotels by 2030. The roadmap for this was unveiled in Berlin this week.

Defying climate change, more greenery for the city - that's what Munich wants. But the cost of the "AI trees" is enormous. An initial appeal for donations raised 70,000 euros, which was enough for one tree. What an expert is planning now.

The consequences of climate change come at a cost. Without additional investment in climate protection, Germany faces the prospect of much higher national debt than previously expected by 2050.

Scandic has further elevated its climate ambitions now that its climate targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The company's long-term goal is to reach net-zero emissions across the entire value chain by 2050.

We all know the buzzwords of sustainability in hospitality. But what is it that regenerative hospitality actually looks like and what work needs to be done? The publishers Prof Dr Willy Legrand, Carlos Martin-Rios and Allessandro Inversini collected articles of 28 authors in five chapters.