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Launched at COP27, the Net Zero Guidelines tackle a major road block for a world where greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to the minimum and balanced by removals: the fragmented net zero governance landscape. Competing approaches and concepts for "Net Zero" sow confusion. The Guidelines provide a common reference for collective efforts, offering a global basis for harmonizing, understanding, and planning for net zero for actors at the state, regional, city and organizational level.
Whenever we talk about standards, one has the stigma of restriction, stagnation, and boundaries in mind. But is that really the case? We simply argue with NO!
There are many bodies and institutions around the world that write and publish standards. But there are few who have understood the concept of the 17 Sustainable Development goals and how they can impact them through standardization. ISO, the International Organization for Standardization with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, have understood just that purpose.
I recently came across an interesting in-room dining menu at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai. Not only did it encourage me to dine in the room and enjoy the view far over Mumbai, but it also reminded me about some best practices, that you only see with some very select hotels.
Dana Jackson, Senior Vice President of Consulting Services at Richey International, explains how hotels can rethink arrival service and make a better first impression when guests first step into the lobby.
A short history of hotels. Why did somebody bother to write standards? Is that a think of the past?
