Swedish Hotel chain Scandic has cut its carbon dioxide emissions in half

Since 2007, the hotel chain has been working towards the goal of being completely carbon dioxide neutral by 2025. Now, four years later, Scandic has managed to halve their emissions and have thereby reached its sub target. What made this possible is the fact that Scandic now’s using solely renewable energy from wind and water for electricity in all the Nordic countries.

- We're very proud of having reached our highly set goals by looking over our consumption and energy contracts, says Inger Mattsson, Manager Sustainable Business at Scandic. The Natural Step's framework for strategic sustainable development is our tool to set the course and our strategy is to actively work with looking at new ways to minimize our effect on the environment. 

Scandic is industry leading when it comes to sustainability work and was this year voted most sustainable hotel chain by Swedish consumers. In 1993, the hotel chain began developing what is seen as the industry’s leading sustainability program, meaning that healthy environmental, economical and social aspects should impregnate the decisions in the daily operation.

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For more information about Scandic’s sustainability work: www.scandichotels.com/betterworld