SUNx Malta will host the first ever Climate Friendly Youth Travel Summit in April 2021. It will include workshops and activities aimed at highlighting the need for a clean and green post-Covid future for tourism.
For a global economy that still relies on oil, gas, and coal for most of its energy and much of its food production, moving to “net zero” by 2050 represents a tectonic shift. As part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story, their Executive Director Mark Hertsgaard talked to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres about how to tackle these urgent challenges.
What is Climate Friendly Travel? How can travel and tourism be aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement? How can the youth be empowered to become the drivers of change that the world needs today?
Renown journalist and author Elizabth Becker identified the threat of ‘overtourism’ in her book 'OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism', published in 2013. In this interview with Sustainability Leaders, she shares what inspired her to write her book and discusses how governments, the cruise industry and the media need to step up to the challenge to make tourism more sustainable.
New research published in the journal of Global Environmental Change suggests that a few ‘super emitters’ are responsible for half of global aviation emissions. The analysis draws together data to give the clearest global picture of the impact of frequent fliers, who have a big impact on the climate crisis that affects everyone. The researchers estimated the cost of the climate damage caused by aviation’s emissions at $100bn in 2018.
