Be socially and environmentally responsible
Recognized leadership
Accor is the only hotel group included in the world’s four leading socially responsible investing indices – SAM’s Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Vigeo’s ASPI Eurozone, EIRiS’ FTSE4Good and Ethibel’s ESI index – and has been so since 2004.
Planet 21: an integrated program of tangible initiatives...
Reinventing hotels sustainably is Accor’s stated goal with its new PLANET 21 program. As the Group enters a new phase of sustained expansion, it is reaffirming its approach to responsible development, which generates value shared by everyone. PLANET 21 accelerates and intensifies Accor’s sustainable development commitment, transforming it into a decisive competitive advantage for the Group, its brands and its partners.
PLANET 21, it’s 7 pillars and 21 commitments in 90 countries.
…for the benefit of everyone
- In 2003, the Accor 21 purchasing Charter was introduced to extend the Group’s commitments to include suppliers.
- “Here, YOUR towels plant trees” is the slogan of the Plant for the Planet project. The goal is to encourage customers to keep their bath towels for more than one night with part of the savings on laundry bills used to finance reforestation projects. Accor plans to finance the planting of 3 million trees by year-end 2012.
- OPEN is now « Accor’s environmental management tool». It enables hotel general managers to post and monitor their performance in the areas of energy and water conservation and waste production. This rigorous process has produced results, with energy and water consumption per hotel room reduced, respectively, by 6% and 12% between 2006 and 2010.
