Hyatt
CEF Lead Executives
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MARIÉ FUKUDOMEList Item 1
Associate Vice President, Sustainability and ESG Reporting
Marié leads Hyatt’s global environmental sustainability platform and strategy development – a pillar to Hyatt’s World of Care platform. Focus areas include climate change and water conservation, waste and circularity, responsible sourcing, and thriving destinations. Additionally, she manages Hyatt’s ESG reporting. Fukudome holds a Master of Environmental Science and Management from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specialized in corporate environmental management, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health with an emphasis on environmental impacts on health from the Johns Hopkins University.
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ZACH GREER
Director of Sustainability
With over 15 years of hotel and hospitality experience, Zach Greer is Hyatt Hotel’s newest addition to the Company’s global Sustainability function. Dedicated to operationalizing and developing additional structure and culture around Sustainability, Zach works to tackle environmentally related operational challenges facing both hotels and stakeholders today. Zach has lived in five states across the U.S. from California to Louisiana and is currently based in Austin, TX. There he lives with his partner, Taylor, two dogs Roscoe and Archie, and cat Merlin. He loves attending music festivals, cooking with ingredients from his (sometimes successful) garden, dabbling in interior design, and of course, traveling! Having lived in New Orleans for a time, Zach is also always eager to chat all things Mardi Gras culture, regional food scenes, and the impact growing up in the South has had on his perspective on hospitality.
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ALLISON CARMODY
Analyst, Sustainability & ESG Reporting
Allison joined Hyatt’s Sustainability and ESG Reporting team in late 2022. In this role, she focuses on supporting the advancement of Hyatt’s 2030 environmental goals and data management of emissions, water and waste. Previously, Allison worked in the manufacturing sector, seeking to advance product transparency and product sustainability. Allison holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Santa Clara University.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Highlights
- Reduced carbon intensity (kg of CO2 equivalent per m2) by 15% for managed hotels and 11% for franchised hotels (2019 baseline).
- Nearly 100 hotels now use measurement tools to gain insights on food waste streams, which can help identify reductions of 25-35% within kitchens where they’re used.
- Cage-free egg supply reached 38% for managed and franchised hotels.
- Implemented the use of its first electric-powered beach-cleaning robot, which has so far cleaned over 3,000 pounds of plastic and debris in Indonesia.
- Trained over 22,000 colleagues as Hygiene & Wellbeing leaders to support their and their colleagues’ wellbeing across over 400 properties worldwide.
- Since 2018, has hired over 5,700 youth from under-resourced communities through its RiseHY program.
- In the U.S. 52% of entry-level managers were women and 55% were people of color in 2023.
- Surpassed 2025 Black supplier spend goal, with Black supplier spend accounting for 50% of all diverse- and women-owned supplier spend in the U.S. in 2023.
Recent News
2022
NEW CORPORATE COMMITMENTS TO HIRE REFUGEES — 46 companies that are part of the Tent Partnership for Refugees committed to hire 22,725 refugees in full time positions in the U.S., helping to advance the economic and social integration of refugees across the country. This is the most significant set of business commitments in support of refugees on record. CEF member commitments include: Amazon will hire at least 5,000 refugees; Hyatt will hire 500; Marriott International, 1,500; and PepsiCo, 500, all over a three year period. The complete list of commitments is here. (Sept 2022)
2021
Sustainable Hospitality Alliance
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Is
developing a Pathway to Net Positive Hospitality as a cohesive framework for companies to drive regenerative impact across the sector, with support from the
World Travel & Tourism Council. The alliance, a group of hospitality companies comprising 30% of the sector, includes CEF members
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Hyatt Hotels, Marriott International, and
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.
CEF member
Ecolab is an alliance partner. (Nov 2021)
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A new, first-of-its-kind
Hotel Waste Measurement Methodology was issued for the hotel industry to collect data and measure and report on waste. The methodology was developed by
World Wildlife Fund
and sustainability consulting group
Greenview along with an industry working group including
Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG Hotels & Resorts,
and Marriott International.
(Sept 2021)
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Launched its
World of Care platform to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and responsible business practices. The platform allows Hyatt to
share detailed workforce diversity data, roll out a new
global human trafficking training, and offer a
new wellness assessment and week of well-being programming. (July 2021)
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2019-2020
Hyatt Hotels announced three new global initiatives aimed at reducing single-use plastic waste at its properties by June 2021. The company plans to transition to large-format bathroom amenities to replace traditional small bottles, increase the number of water refill stations in key public spaces at its hotel properties, and serve water in carafes or other containers for meetings and events if bottled water is not requested. (Nov 2019)