Is your hotel sustainable? Not if these two things are in your room, says Soneva's founder

A quick-and-easy test is to look for two items, said Sonu Shivdasani, founder of Soneva and Six Senses hotel brands.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.

By relying more on solar power than diesel fuel, he said, Soneva resorts will save money in the long run. "Governments can create the context, but businesses need to make the change," Shivdasani told CNBC Travel."We can do that by making small changes to the way we do business that does not affect our profitability, but which can have a huge impact on people well beyond our shores."

"I didn't know what scope 3 CO2 emissions were," he said."Scopes 1 and 2 are like the light bulbs, the air-conditioning … scope three is externalities outside the property guests flying in, supplies coming in."

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