Greengage Solutions has relaunched its ECOsmart portal with new features, including SMARTscan AI, the first AI-powered tool to help travel, hospitality, and events organisations achieve sustainability certification faster and more easily.
The first step in the ECOsmart certification process is an online survey to establish an organisation’s current position regarding sustainability so that an implementation action plan can be drawn up.
Organisations can now upload existing policies, reports and other resources to the ECOsmart portal where SMARTscan analyses them and extracts relevant data to answer the survey questions.
In testing SMARTscan completed up to 60 per cent of the survey in a fraction of the time that it normally takes. This means that organisations can start implementation and see results much more quickly.
SMARTscan performs four key functions:
- Analysing data from multiple sources to identify sustainability opportunities.
- Verifying sustainability statements against established standards, ensuring compliance with green claims regulations and preparing businesses for the requirements of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
- Providing tailored and actionable sustainability recommendations based on venue-specific data.
- Monitoring implementation and progress toward sustainability goals.
An additional benefit of SMARTscan is that it makes sustainability certification accessible to organisations without the budgets to employ sustainability experts.
Understanding that AI is more energy intensive, Greengage is offering clients carbon offsetting with Carbon Footprint.
Louise Boyse, commercial director at Greengage Solutions said: “Sustainability management has traditionally been time intensive, subjective and disconnected from action. SMARTscan AI changes that paradigm completely. Now, hospitality businesses can move from assessment to verified action in a fraction of the time, with greater accuracy and confidence that their sustainability claims meet rigorous standards.”
