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How to get... ACCURATE HOTEL CARBON REPORTS
Mark Ansell SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER, FLEET & TRAVEL PROCUREMENT, E.ON Mark Ansell joined E.ON UK in August 2008 as a senior category manager with responsibility for fleet and travel procurement. Prior to this he worked in similar roles with Veolia Group, The Energy Consortium and Midlands Electricity Plc. Mark is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply and holds an M.Sc in procurement and supply chain management. In addition to representing E.ON UK’s travel requirements on the E.ON European Lead Buyership in partnership with Judith Gledhill (UK travel manager), Mark has recently been appointed as fleet lead buyer responsible for co-ordination of E.ON’s European fleet procurement activities.
Systems and processes are moving forward to help buyers fill the void of capturing accurate and meaningful hotel carbon data. Gillian Upton reports on one promising development
TALK to most corporates and many have long been focussing on the CSR credentials of their supply chain. Dig a little deeper though and while some are making headway capturing carbon data from airlines and other forms of transport, the same cannot be said for hotels. Arguably, the carbon emissions from
a plane, train or car are simpler to calculate than a more complex hotel booking and this is where corporates have stumbled on their carbon- quelling journey. This was a challenge that E.ON was
only too aware of. “Hotel carbon usage has always been the ‘gold star’ so to speak and I think it is fair to say that hotel carbon reporting has remained a prize out of reach, until now,” explains Mark Ansell from E.ON, one of the UK's leading renewable energy companies. If anyone was going to crack this particular nut, it was likely to be a company in this sector. E.ON UK employs around 16,000
people in the UK who are split across nine operational businesses. As a result, the company’s hotel programme is diverse and in terms of volumes, transacts approximately 34,000 annual room nights (down by 40 per cent compared to 2008 levels) across 150 key locations. It also enjoys a preferred venue compliance rate of around 85
per cent and has made significant investments in alternative meetings technologies. Carbon emissions reduction forms an integral part of E.ON's changing energy strategy and carbon reporting has been at the forefront of the company’s procurement selection criteria for some time now. “E.ON recognises sustain- ability as an important component of total cost and given our extensive travel requirements we are pleased that we now have a tool to compliment our over arching strategy,” says Ansell. How did it get to this market-leading
stage? Read on to find out why E.ON became the pilot client for a new- fangled data layout solution created jointly by the company’s hotel booking agency, BSI, and CarePAR.
Step 1 With the opinion that cost reduction and carbon reporting do not have to be mutually exclusive, BSI was looking for a proposed solution for its clients, specifically a solution that would provide robust, easily accessible
CO2 emissions data. “There was a genuine gap in the market and we endeavoured to address it as a matter
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