Following last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland, AFAR asked thought leaders in travel how they plan to take action and create a more sustainable future.
B Corporations are businesses that "meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability" to balance profit and purpose. Intrepid Travel has had its B Corporation status recertified after achieving a near 10% improvement on its original 2018 assessment.
With the Arctic warming three times faster than the rest of the planet, can travel to the region ever be sustainable? Environmentalists say time is running out for the Arctic. Some damage is irreversible, but long-term strategies for sustainable tourism could help to protect this precious region for many generations to come.
Several European countries have announced plans to make domestic flights fossil fuel-free by 2030. However, it is unclear if the technology will be ready, and costs sufficiently low, for the target to be reached. Denmark is aiming for a 70% cut in overall carbon emissions by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.
In this “Good Tourism” Insight, academics Johanna Loehr and Susanne Becken offer an executive summary of “Leverage points to address climate change risk in destinations”, their paper recently published by Tourism Geographies.
