@Christine3300
While I agree that that would be a great category, how on earth would it be regulated? What counts as sustainable or not?
Bear in mind that the listings are being categorised by AI that cannot even recognise a beachfront or lakefront property as that. How on earth is the AI going to correctly categorise sustainable properties? Does one have to mention 25 times in the listing that the property is sustainable? Even in that scenario, what makes it so? Only a human being with knowledge and expertise and some way of verifying the sustainability factor would be able to make that call and I doubt that's work Airbnb would want to put in. They can't even bother to pay staff to check basic, obvious stuff about the categories, let alone anything as nuanced as sustainability.
The whole thing is messed up. Did you know, for example, that the only listings in the 'historic homes' category are in France? Apparently, historic homes in any other part of the world do not qualify because the French government requires historic homes in France to be called 'historic homes'. This is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard. How on earth did some rational human being decided that, because of that, no other county qualifies as having historic homes?