21/05/2025
感謝台北時報Taipei Times採訪📰https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/05/21/2003837233
如同美國LEED和台灣EEWH綠建築認證系統，節能是EarthCheck流程中的一個關鍵要素。然而，EarthCheck是針對旅遊業量身打造的，因此它著重於“遊客過夜數”而非建築樓地板面積。（一間房間如果有兩人過夜，則計為兩晚。）另外，對於舉辦對外活動並經營吸引大量非住客的餐廳的飯店來說，計算碳足跡和能源效率就會變得非常複雜。
Solutions策略長 Shaun Bettinson表示，在台灣，希望獲得EarthCheck認證的飯店面臨的最大挑戰，就是找到時間去尋找並輸入準確的數據。「他們擁有一切，只是需要有人蒐集並輸入系統」同時說明了當地酒店業面臨嚴重的勞動力短缺。
一旦流程啟動，重要的是「將酒店的可持續發展目標及其實現方法傳達並落實到更換床單的人員(基層人員)。(永續這項工作)不能僅僅存在於最高層的董事們」
Like green-building certification systems such as LEED in the US and Taiwan’s EEWH, energy saving is a key element of the EarthCheck process. Because it’s tailored to the tourism industry, however, EarthCheck focuses on “guest nights” rather than floor area. (One room occupied overnight by two people counts as two guest nights.) But for hotels that host events open to outsiders and operate restaurants that attract large numbers of non-guests, calculating carbon footprint and energy efficiency can be very complicated.
In Taiwan, Shaun Bettinson, solutions director at RCI Sustainability Group, says, the biggest challenge that faces hotels hoping to obtain EarthCheck certification is finding the time to locate and input accurate data.
“They have all of it. They just need to collect it and put it into the system,” he says, while acknowledging that the local hospitality industry suffers from a significant labor shortage.
Once the process is underway, it’s important that the property’s sustainability goals, and the methods being used to attain them, “are communicated and implemented right down to the person changing the sheets. [This effort] can’t exist just at the top level among directors,” Bettinson says.
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