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The first FSG Emerald Award for Sustainability has been awarded to The Rose Hotel in Tralee. Pictured were with the award at the hotel are, standing; Mike O’Shea, Michele King, Odran Lucey, Mark Sullivan , Fiona Conway and David Fitzgerald. Seated; Orla Greaney and Mary Lynch. Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
THE first FSG Emerald Award for Sustainability in the world has been awarded to The Rose Hotel, Tralee, by environmental educational company Fifty Shades Greener.
Odran Lucey, the hotel’s Green Manager and Executive Head Chef has been described by the company as a force of nature when it comes to leading The Rose Hotel on their sustainable journey.
Odran also became the first level 6 qualified Green Manager in the world in 2022, allowing him to be acknowledged for the environmental management skills he had gained through the Fifty Shades Greener qualification.
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To achieve the Emerald Award, The Rose Hotel have been measuring and reducing their energy and water use and waste production, they have also measured their carbon emissions, completed many actions to reduce their pressure on these resources and created an Environmental Policy and Action Plan to commit themselves to future reduction.
They have now proven their continued efforts with a reduction of their overall carbon footprint since they achieved a Silver Award at the beginning of 2022.
Now in 2023, they have successfully brought down their carbon footprint by an impressive 32%.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have received the Emerald Award, this is the accolade we had been striving to achieve,” said Odran.
“This award could only be achieved with a great team effort, it is easy to get distracted with day to day business but the Emerald Award was a great focus on our sustainability journey, and we got there. The Rose Hotel have reduced the carbon footprint, something we hear about so often in the media, by 31%, this reduction is amazing. To be the first hotel in the world to be awarded the coveted Emerald Status Award by FSG is a great honour,” Odran added.
Fifty Shades Greener (FSG) provides environmental educational programmes for hospitality, schools and adult learners, while also providing consultancy services to governments, educational institutions and businesses internationally.
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