Greenhouse Gas and Biodiversity Impact (GABI) - Truly Valuing Nature for Sustainable Tourism, Travel and Development

GABI Truly Values Nature

Total Life Cycle (TLC) introduces to tourism, hotels and hospitality, the Planet Tip®, a science based, price calculation of the environmental harms produced by the goods and services we buy and use. The Planet Tip is calculated by our proprietary software, GABI® that hotels, resorts, businesses and even customers, can use to show how much Carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases and biodiversity harm is linked to their holiday, hotel room, event, travel, or even the meal they ate dining out.

Climate

Tackling Scope 3

GABI® has been developed to identify and tackle the largest sources of emissions in tourism, hotels and hopitality. These mostly reside in the non-direct (Scope 3) operational activities such as Guest Travel and the Supply Chain.

Scope 3 emissions regularly contribute over two thirds of operational Greenhouse Gas emitted by business. We also measure the easy stuff, such as: gas and fuel (Scope 1), electricity (Scope 2), water and waste, but uniquely, GABI provides the means and approach to tackle Scope 3 fully and gets your supply chain supporting your sustainable journey. A consumer demo version of GABI is available for you to try below. For a business demonstration or bespoke versions of GABI for your: hotel, resort, MICE or Destination, please contact us.

(a consumer friendly version of GABI)

Biodiversity

Tackling Plastics, Ecosystem Loss and Water Pollution

Around 10% of all plastics end up in the marine environment, so GABI measures all plastics not just single use. We also start the process of assesing detergent and waste impacts to ecosystems on land and in water.

The financial cost of biodiversity harm impacts can be significantly higher than climate impacts. A single plastic (PET) water bottle can be thousand times more costly to biodiversity than to climate. Agriculture and farming also cause environmental impacts related to pesticides, fertilisers and animal waste. We tackle the highest impact issues and promote improvement by informing stakeholders of where little changes can make a big difference.