Accommodations

Starwood is working to reduce carbon emissions and is committed to reporting on progress annually using the Carbon Disclosure Project Survey and Starwood’s Sustainability Report. To achieve our sustainability goals we have designed a two pronged strategy. First, we are building greener hotels in collaboration with our owners and developers and have created green building guidelines. Second, we are focused on changing hotel operations to improve the health of the environment across our global portfolio of 950 hotels. Our initiatives were shaped by client needs, shareholder input and hotel best practices. In addition, our initiatives align with environmental certification programs to help our hotels meet locally adopted certification standards. At present, more than 120 Starwood hotels have either achieved or are in pursuit of a third‐party certification including LEED, Green Seal, Green Globe, Green Key and Energy‐Star