Sustainability in hospitality
Tackling the challenges of sustainability in the hospitality industry
The hospitality industry has a significant impact on sustainability, contributing 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Hotels alone consume vast resources, using 346,000 gallons of water and generating 1,000 tons of waste daily. Sustainable practices like energy efficiency, waste reduction, and resource conservation are vital to addressing these challenges.
With the hospitality sector contributing 5% of GDP in the EU and 3.5% in the US, it has a unique opportunity to engage billions of customers annually by demonstrating a commitment to a sustainable future.
Our team brings extensive expertise in the food, beverage, and hospitality sectors, offering services such as emissions calculations (FLAG), net-zero strategies, carbon footprint analysis, SBTi submissions, risk assessments, double materiality assessments, and more.
Hospitality case studies
Hospitality insights
Meet our specialist consultants for hospitality sustainability
Henry Unwin
Director of Client Strategies
Henry has spent over 15 years working in sustainability, both as a consultant and in-house. For a decade, he led sustainability initiatives across regional government, international business, regenerative agriculture and retail.
A passionate advocate for the role of business in tackling the climate crisis, Henry has dedicated much of his career to driving progress in the food, farming, and retail sectors helping organisations turn ambition into action.
At Simply Sustainable, Henry leads the Client Strategies Team making sustainability work for our current and future clients. He brings a strategic, pragmatic approach to sustainability, balancing his passion for change with commercial insight.
Will Bourns
Solutions Manager – Impacts and Dependencies
Will is the Solutions Manager for the Impacts and Dependencies team at Simply Sustainable. He leads the team supporting clients in developing understanding of the risk and quantifying impact on the society and environment. This ranges from initial carbon footprints to deep dives into specific commodities and dependencies on communities and ecosystems.
Will has experience across a range of sectors from financial institutions to food manufacturers and retailers. His expertise includes carbon footprinting, social value and quantifying the impact of land conversion and deforestation and utilising this data to inform business decisions relating to procurement of goods and future investments.
Will studied Zoology and Natural Sciences at the University of Liverpool and since graduating Will expanded his knowledge through memberships at PIEMA and EI.
Camila Segura
Sustainability Solutions Consultant
As a Sustainability Solutions Consultant, Camila is deeply passionate about nature and biodiversity. Camila works with multiple sectors but predominately collaborates on projects in the food and beverage industry and specialises in analysing the decarbonisation of a business’s procurement emissions, particularly in relation to forest and land use change.
With an academic background in environmental engineering and a Master’s in Global Sustainability Challenges from the University of Exeter, Camila has dedicated her career to tackling environmental and sustainability challenges. She helps organisations understand their environmental impacts and opportunities, guiding them to design credible decarbonisation pathways and strengthen their connections with nature.