Hübis and Klappir: Building sustainability data infrastructure from São Paulo to Rio
What began as a cross-continental infrastructure project in a São Paulo urban park has since become the foundation for a working partnership that has earned Brazil’s most recognised hospitality sustainability award.
From a G20 event in Rio to a São Paulo urban park
Klappir’s partnership with Hübis began not with a sales discussion, but with a challenge. In 2024, Klappir joined a collaboration with Hübis, Greennova, and Orla Brasil. Meeting Hübis at the G20 event in 2024, backed by CLEAN, opened the door to Brazil. The pilot project was with Orla Brasil, a company transforming waterfronts and public spaces in Brazil into organised, accessible environments.
The goal was not to produce a sustainability report. It was to give the park’s vendors, restaurants, and activity operators the tools to consistently and reliably contribute data, optimise their own operations, and make that information meaningful to visitors and regulators alike.
Hübis, Hub de Inovações para Sustentabilidade, brought the local sustainability expertise and on-the-ground knowledge that made the project possible. Greennova helped manage the cultural and innovation environment. The work was supported by EUREKA Innowwide funding, which backed the platform adaptation and market entry process.
Brazilian emission factors, Portuguese interface, local operational context
Together, Klappir and Hübis spent several months preparing the platform for the Brazilian market: incorporating Brazilian emission factors, translating the interface into Portuguese, and developing a deeper understanding of how resource data collection should operate in a market with strong demand and an ecosystem still maturing.
What the project reinforced, above all, is a principle central to Klappir’s approach: resource and sustainability data becomes most useful when organisations can share it. A single vendor’s energy consumption data means something. Aggregated, structured, and comparable data across an entire park means far more; it becomes powerful to regulators, operators, investors, and, eventually, guests.
From São Paulo to Rio, and Brazil’s most recognised hospitality sustainability award
With the platform adapted and the partnership established, Hübis began applying the Klappir infrastructure to client work in the hospitality sector. One of those engagements was with Hotel Arpoador, part of Grupo Arpoador in Rio de Janeiro. The brief was clear: move the hotel’s sustainability programme from well-intentioned targets to specific, measurable progress.
The platform allows the management team to track energy, water, and gas consumption, waste generation by type and point of origin, and carbon emissions per guest within a single, structured environment. Monitoring waste generation by type and source identified practical opportunities to improve separation practices and reduce total waste volumes.
The cumulative work was submitted to the Top Hotel Rio de Janeiro 2025 Award, in its 20th edition, in the Green Seal category. Hotel Arpoador placed first among 21 competing projects. The jury recognised the hotel’s data-centric approach, specifically the shift from sustainability as a compliance obligation to an active management discipline.
“Our partnership with Klappir has shown how combining local expertise with advanced sustainability data tools can accelerate real change in hospitality. This award is a great example of what can happen when strategy, technology, and committed teams work together.”
Infrastructure that scales through local partnership
The road from São Paulo to Rio points to something broader about how resource data infrastructure scales. It does not travel well as a product dropped into a new market. It scales and travels through partnerships with organisations that have local knowledge, sector expertise, and the capacity to translate data infrastructure into real operational change for clients.
Hübis brings to the table what was needed. Their service areas, strategic sustainability management, solid waste, energy and water efficiency, sustainable value chains, and internal team engagement, map directly onto the problems Klappir’s platform is built to support. Together, clients receive both the data infrastructure and the expertise to act on it.
For Klappir, Brazil is a market where the sustainability appetite is real, and the infrastructure to support it is still taking shape. Hübis is the partner helping to build it.
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