Caesars Entertainment Commits to Reduce Carbon Emissions by 95 Percent

Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced it has set science-based targets to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the company and throughout its supply chain. The ambitious goals demonstrate Caesars’ ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and mitigating long-term risk.

Caesars is one of over 400 global organizations that has committed to business leadership and policy alignment on climate through the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) and one of just over 100 companies to have their targets approved.

The SBTi is a collaboration among CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered “science-based” if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below two degrees celsius compared to preindustrial temperatures.

Caesars Entertainment commits to:

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions 30 percent by 2025, and 95 percent by 2050 from a 2011 base-year.
• Have 60 percent of suppliers by spend institute science-based GHG reduction targets for their operations by 2023.

Caesars is the first gaming company to include a scope 3 goal in its verified science-based targets. This level of commitment helps to further accelerate the momentum of reducing environmental impact as it relates to the operations a company doesn’t directly control, including supply chain, vendors, etc. This indirect influence also makes it one of the most ambitious goals for a company. With thousands of suppliers throughout the company, Caesars recognized the importance of engaging the full supply chain in order to create meaningful impact.

One of the first demonstrations of how Caesars will achieve its aggressive goals is a Request for Proposal (RFP) that will be issued in June for a major utility-scale purchase of solar energy in the Las Vegas desert, which will deliver power to its Nevada properties.

The carbon and management strategy developed by Caesars is a cornerstone of the company’s CodeGreen environmental program, which was established in 2008 and entails engaging employees and guests to understand and reduce energy use, GHG emissions, waste and water use. Caesars Entertainment has reduced its total GHG emissions by 22.9 percent since 2011.

Additional progress includes:

• Reduced water use by 21 percent per sf since 2008.
• Diverted 41 percent of waste from landfill in 2017.

For more information on Caesars’ Corporate Citizenship, please follow @CitizenCaesars on Twitter, see the 2016-2017 CSR Report and visit the Corporate Citizenship blog.