The Hilton Worldwide Portfolio of Brands, within its owned hotels and corporate offices and directionally, throughout system wide hotels globally, commits to the following five-year reductions (January 2009 — January 2014) from direct operations:

• We will reduce our energy consumption by 20%.
• We will reduce our Co2 emissions by 20%.
• We will reduce our output of waste by 20%.
• And we will also reduce our water consumption by 10%.

In addition to these measurable short-term targets, we are also committing to focus on some high impact areas that offer huge potential long-term benefits, including sustainable buildings and operations, and the advancement of sustainable design and construction, operations, chemical management and purchasing.

We are also committed to the advancement of renewable energy as a source of power for our operations, not only to reduce our carbon footprint but to develop a viable commercial infrastructure for powering our buildings.