How green is Curaao Hospitality

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How green is Curaçao Hospitality?
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Why go green?It is rewarding because

• You are helping the environment
• You will be competitive
• You will earn recognition

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Involving who?

• Everyone from the ground up

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Make a green team with staff coming from all
sections of the hotel

• Get all personel in a meeting
• Explain them why
• Agree upon a green program
• Encourage with incentives
• Consult experts with knowledge of local
  circumstances

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Experts will tell the green team

• Start by looking at all your bills for utilities,
  food supply, cleaning supplies
• Discuss opportunities to go green in each section
  of your hotel or other hospitality service
• Set yourself a plan timeline

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Going green is an ongoing process

• Educate staff
• and other personel and have monthly meetings

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Guests

• Educate guests
• Half of US tourists consider themselves as
  eco-friendly
• Let them know about the benefits for themselves
  and the planet

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Once the team is on track, ask for a benchmarking
program e.g. Green Globe
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Then you are on the way toward becoming a green
hotel or hospitality service
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Competition, earning recognition, branding, these
are not unfamiliar concepts,but why should the
sector go green, giving the environment a helping
hand?
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Things are going really bad with world environment

• forests
• diminishing animalsfishstock
• mineralsoil stocks
• pollution
• climate change

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Forests and oceans

• Deforestation means natural capital losses
  between 2 - 5 trillion every year, to date Wall
  Street lost 1.5 only
• About 40 of mammals are compromised by squeeze
  on habitat
• All fishseafood species will crash by 2048

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Climate change

• Burning fuels like gasoline, diesel and coal
  amounts in more greenhouse gases warming up the
  atmosphere this process results in climate change

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Worldwide impacts of CC

• Temperatures rise
• NorthSouthpole icecaps and glaciers are melting
  down
• Sealevel risesimpacts for coastal and lowlying
  coastal areas
• Stronger rainfall within shorter periods
• flooding

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Caribbean area specifics

• Warmer ocean water energizes hurricanes
• Hurricanes take more southern routes in the
  Caribbean area

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Urgency to save the planet and our islands

• All environmental, social and economic questions
  will be overtaken by Climate Change
• Global and local action needed involving all
  citizens, government and business

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Hospitalitys role in saving the planet how?

• Introduce the idea of Corporate Social
  Responsibility (CSR) to meet demands of rapidly
  changing business environment
• CSRs slogan is People, Planet and Profit
• This facilitates addressing climate and
  environmental issues connecting them to PPP

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Greening hospitality by PPP

• People involve all staff and workers think of
  rewarding their commitment
• Planet work on a green program
• Profit without profits no business, and
  without planet no business and no profits

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A few recommendations

• prevent environmental problems
• Consult professional environmental advisers
• Without green program the use of loose tips
  results in contradictions
• Consult professionals on team work, with
  knowledge of local culture
• Greening is all about being real

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This will cost me money

• It proves to be more rewarding than one imagines
• investing in PPP means saving money in the future
  (different timelines)
• Reflect for a while what making profits means
  while nature is dying
• Recognition in society is a reward

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So now you have sufficient tools at your disposal
to answer the questionhow green is Curacao
hospitality?
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Still interested in a few practical tips?

• Design climate and environmental friendly
  buildings, gardens etc.
• Avoid construction of artificial beaches
• Avoid construction too close to the coastline
• Purchase only machines, equipment, cars,
  aircosystems with low energy use
• Always consult professionals on this

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gardens

• Local plants and trees
• Avoid planting too close to coastline
• Use only compost as fertilizer
• Combat eventual pests only with recommended green
  products
• Plant strategically cool lanes, buildings,
  shadow, observe the suns route, wind

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waste

• Reduce waste volume progressively
• Produce new garden green mould by composting
  organic garden and kitchen waste
• Deliver glass bottles to recycling companies
• Sustain efforts to recycle plastic bottles

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Waste 2

• Introduce bins for separate waste
• Take notice of zero waste websites
• Communicate with suppliers on environmentally
  friendly products

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Inside buildings

• Save energy
• More energy autonomy using solar power etc.
• Save water
• Purchase the right soaps and detergents
• Teach workers to handle detergents the right way

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And we could mention a 1001 more tips
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But the most important thing is

• Management adopts a green program
• Management involves all workers and staff and
  telling them why
• After working for a year or two, management could
  decide to join a certification program, e.g.
  Green Globe
• Being aware of being part of wider ecosystem

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Being a good example

• Provides a model for collegues and other sectors
• Also for government bodies
• makes environmentalists fieldwork easier as they
  can refer to this example
• Upgrades the knowledge and responsibility level
  of the citizens

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Be part of the solution

• Be serious about greening (greenwash)
• Be aware that coastal management should be
  integrated and sustainable and not unsustainable
  and cut into bits
• Take Carmabis advice from the heart and support
  them
• Join Curacao Business Council for Sustainable
  Development

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And keep it enjoyable for everybody
involved.Thank you for saving the planet and
people !
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Amigu di Tera / Friends of the Earth Curaçao

• Lloyd Narain