STRONG Universal Network (SUNx) issues First Annual Climate Friendly Travel Report
"Calls for increased climate crisis response from the travel
& tourism Sector"
New
York/Brussels/Beijing - September 24, 2019:
The SUNx
Climate Friendly Travel Report, analyses the evolving Paris Climate
Framework with its hardening 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goals and lower than
1.5 degree temperature increase trajectory. It concludes that:
- The Climate Crisis is real and existential, stressing that the world is reaching a tipping point.
- The Travel & Tourism Sector is generally behind the crisis response trend and will fall further behind without urgent industry- and government-committed climate action programs.
- There is still an opportunity to change course, but there needs to be clear emission reduction initiatives across the total supply and demand chains.
- Travel and Tourism must align with the evolving Paris 2050 Climate Neutral targets and conduct its operations accordingly at community, company and consumer levels. The report highlighted that, while the Travel and Tourism sector has been a leading champion, other sectors and coalitions are doing as much, if not more and that it’s time to excel.
- Climate Friendly
Travel ~ measured:
green: 2050 proof ~
must rapidly become the new norm.
In addition, the
report specifically calls for action to:
- Rein in aviation, maritime and road transport emissions associated with Travel and Tourism
- Accelerate research and deployment of safe, synthetic aircraft and cruise ship fuel, through a concentrated multi-stakeholder moon-shot program
- Create systems of incentives and penalties to encourage rapid introduction of climate resilient business strategies and more intensive, ambitious emission reduction targets
- Build on WTTC leadership initiatives, in close collaboration with UNFCCC, for a more focused climate-responsive sector.
Research
and analysis for the report was led by Professor Geoffrey Lipman, co-founder of
SUNx, a legacy program for Maurice Strong the father of Sustainable Development.
Lipman said,
“With this first annual Climate Friendly Travel Report, issued
under the patronage of the government of Malta and in collaboration with WTTC,
we hope to help the industry better understand the immense danger of
existential climate change to the world as we know it and to focus on what is
needed for urgent response.”
He
added,
“The weather patterns on which our sector has traditionally based its
markets, operating plans and investment, are changing rapidly and the window
for responsive action is closing fast. We hope this first report and future annual
editions, as well as our new Malta Global Registry of Emission Reduction
Ambitions, will be a catalyst for change.”
About SUNx
The Strong Universal Network SUNx is a program of the
Malta-based, not for profit Green Growth and Travelism Institute, and a legacy
to the late Maurice Strong - Sustainable Development Pioneer. Its goal is
to promote Climate Friendly Travel with good & bad effects measured and
managed coherently: with Green Growth at the core and, 2050-proof in line with
the Paris Accords, and the W.E.F. 4th Industrial Revolution.
For more information, please contact:
Olly Wheatcroft
+44 (0) 7765 132408
or
Paul Wilke
+1415-215-8750
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