The Science Based Targets initiative has verified Marriott International’s plans to reduce carbon emissions, the hotel company announced Monday.
Marriott has committed to reach net-zero value chain greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal it announced in 2021. Marriott on Monday said it has “committed to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 46.2 percent by 2030 from a 2019 base year” and Scope 3 emissions by 2030 by 27.5 percent from 2019 levels.
The company’s 2050 targets include a 90 percent reduction of Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and a 90 percent reduction of Scope 3 emissions, all against a 2019 baseline.
Marriott said it is focusing on three areas to reach the 2050 target: “energy reduction, sourcing more energy from renewables, and purchasing goods with lower carbon footprints across its portfolio of over 8,800 properties in 139 countries and territories.”
The SBTi is an initiative of several climate-related groups that assists companies in setting science-based greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets to achieve net-zero goals. The group requires companies to submit plans to achieve such goals within 24 months of a net-zero commitment. Validation is no certainty; earlier this year, the group removed the commitments of scores of companies for failure to develop plans for sufficient mitigation
