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The Limits to Growth (LtG) published in April 1972, called for managing the reduction of resources used in economic development.  It warned that overshoot will be caused by significant institutional delays in decision-making and showed how the equilibrium between remedial action and ecosystem improvement could be achie ...

The Sustainable Hospitality Alliance drives collaborative action.  It is an alliance of senior executives from hospitality companies and industry partners who collaborate and cooperate on joint areas of action.  The alliance develops open resources and programs to enable the wider industry to grow sustainably and opera ...

The construction sector has focused mainly on improving its energy efficiency and the substitution of fossil fuels to decarbonize buildings.  It has largely ignored the threat from the continued growth in the built environment.  This article argues that embodied carbon in buildings can be reduced only at the strategic ...

The majority of hotel carbon emissions result from operational energy consumption.  With 80% of hotels in 2050 already in existence, this white paper sets out a high-level framework and prioritizes interventions throughout the remaining life cycle of the existing building stock.  The paper addresses the net-zero carbon ...

On the Italian Adriatic coast in the province of Rimini, more than 350 hotels are up for sale.  According to estimates, €320 million would be enough to buy a good third of them.  In Rimini alone, 159 buildings are now on the market, several of them with four and five stars.  It is not only the Corona pandemic that has ...