Monday, July 21, 2025
Kempinski Hotels has unveiled its fourth consecutive Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report 2024 which highlights the group’s commitment to sustainable practises throughout its property portfolio around the world. Developed with EarthCheck, the world’s leading scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group, it reflects our performance in environmental and social terms, in line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, and it represents Kempinski’s efforts in governance, and its progress to address ESG risks in the hotel industest.
The report talks about what Kempinski has done in the past year to lower its environmental impact, improve its social impact, and improve its governance practices. This is part of Kempinski’s larger plan to create sure that its business activities are good for the environment and the people who live in the areas it serves.
Environmental Progress: Significant Reductions in Energy and Waste
Kempinski Hotels has achieved this result due to its significant progress in contributing to environmental commitments. In the 2024 ESG report, Kempinski achieved an overall 20% reduction on total energy consumption, energy apply intensity and the production of emissions. Moreover, green or renewable energy consumption rose 10%, displaying that the company is cutting back its carbon footprint and building progress towards a more sustainable future.
Solid waste management has also largely been enhanced, with 34% of wastes diverted from landfills via recycling, reapply or composting. The company also cut the amount of waste intensity sent to landfills by 47%. Kempinski’s emphasis on reducing water apply intensity is also paying dividconcludes, with water consumption per guest night falling for the third consecutive year to 700 liters per guest night.
In keeping with its environmental aspirations, Kempinski has installed the EarthCheck-supported VenueCheck technology in 20 hotels, allowing conference planners to more effectively control and quantify the environmental impact of their meetings and events. This is part of a shiftment to support the world’s leading hotels in surpassing the latest industest-wide sustainability tarobtains for meetings and events. At the conclude of 2024 there were 36 Kempinski hotels and residences certified by EarthCheck, ensuring the company’s unwavering commitment to sustainability.
Social Responsibility: A People-Centric Approach
On the social side of things, Kempinski Hotels stayed true to supporting of their people and community. 81% of the company’s employees were local recruits globally, and 38% of all employees were women at all job levels. It is interesting that the gconcludeer pay gap, actually works out in favour of women at a 1% pay premium. Work related injuries were down 10% on the year and with no fatalities according to the company.
Kempinski DEI has been a central part of the brand’s business strategy. The company’s dedication to the well-being and inclusion of its employees was also honored with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the fourth consecutive year. Kempinski contributed to health projects in local communities to the tune of EUR 259,000 as part of its BE Health initiative, illustrating its commitment to creating value within its areas of operation.
Governance: Strong Measures to Ensure Accountability and Transparency
Governance continues to be a key focus of Kempinski within its ESG concludeeavours. This is supported by a strong governance model with leadership from the Rinchem Executive and a separate Sustainability Committee, which is built up of 10 experts from within the company. This system supports us to embed sustainability objectives throughout our organisation and business strategy.
Kempinski has even more to report: 97.3% of preferred suppliers have signed the Kempinski Code of Conduct since 2023, and the hotel chain remains on track to reach the tarobtain of 100% for preferred suppliers to be signed. Anti-corruption activities were intensified: 40 operations were checked for their conformity, one of which was confirmed and managed with disciplinary sanction. In the digital space, Kempinski achieved 94% compliance in data privacy and security training, as well as PCI DSS certification for all hotels annually, further demonstrating the brand’s dedication to safeguarding both guests’ and corporate data.
Partnerships and Industest Leadership
Sustainability pledging Kempinski Hotels has also continued several industest partnerships supporting it to achieve its sustainability aims. The company has also worked with organizations such as Clean the World and Solenis-Diversey on programs that aim to save waste by recycling plastic bottles, unapplyd linen, coffee capsules and plastic shreds. Furthermore, 16.5 tonnes of soap had been kept from landfills, resulting in the Green Initiative’s overall waste reduction by Kempinski.
Kempinski’s hotels have also built the switch to wooden key cards, with 62% of hotels in the group having dismantled the plastic key card by 2024. It is the latest shift in an ongoing effort to cut back on its reliance on plastic and increase the company’s apply of sustainable materials.
Looking Ahead: A Structured Framework for Sustainable Growth
While it has built great strides, Kempinski Hotels admits that it still has further to go. The company’s leadership also understands that its ESG program must be connected to the basic fiber of its business to achieve long-term value creation. To continue advancing the sustainability-performance journey and improve the ability to withstand global challenges, a structured, future-oriented approach is required.
The 2024 ESG report also brings to attention the role of data quality, transparency, and accountability in organizational operations as fundamental for progress and credibility in the company’s sustainability. And as Kempinski continues to march on into the future, it is intconcludeing to continue to evolve its ESG commitments even more to be a positive contributor to the future of hospitality and the communities that surround it.
Conclusion
Kempinski Hotels’ 2024 ESG Report emphasizes the company’s continued dedication to sustainability and corporate responsibility. As momentum continues and as the facts are depicted on the environmental, social and governance front, Kempinski is at the vanguard of taking on the responsibility as the hospitality industest benchmarks itself on sustainability. The report offers applyful commentary on the company’s performance and a roadmap for continued progress, supporting to embed ESG into the company’s long-term strategy and operations.
Kempinski’s commitment to upholding values for respect of human rights, fair labor practices, environment and anti-corruption has also been supported through the company’s engagement in the United Nations Global Compact.
(Source: Kempinski Hotels 2024 ESG Report)
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