CLIMATE CHANGE - ENERGY AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
Climate change is seen by many as one of the most important current challenges for the sustainability of tourism. Like few other industries, tourism heavily relies on intact natural resources, with climate ranking first together with waters, nature and landscapes, demanding innovative resource efficiency management. Consequently, tourism is affected in many ways by climate change in need to adapt to the impacts of any changes. At the same time, the tourism industry is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, thus the anthropogenic climate change, which demands respective mitigation strategies and measures on their part. This mutual impact furthermore requires fundamental changes in the way many destinations and businesses work to implement energy and resource efficiency and to minimise waste as well as adaptation policies in the face of climate change.
The Role of Tourism Stakeholders
There is a need to improve the (resource) efficiency and impacts of tourism activities, avoiding damage to habitats, minimizing pollution and waste, and conserving precious resources such as water and certain forms of energy, taking every opportunity to innovate as we adapt and mitigate, for example using renewable energy, green technologies and efficient product life-cycle planning processes.
Governments
NGOs, networks, partnerships
Research, education, consultancy
Destinations
Businesses
Travellers
Climate change and resource efficiency issues point to the need to develop a new culture of tourism and travel, with travellers encouraged and assisted to consider the impacts of their destination and travel choices.
SDGs related to this topic
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