Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  Guest contribution for SUNx Malta  |  Based on the TSSF–SIIL Implementation Architecture Research Sequence (Papers #01–#11) and applied destination diagnostics by Suzanne Duffour, Yun Consultancy A Question the Intergovernmental Process Has Not Yet Answered Under the Paris Agreement, Parties submit Nationally Determined Contributions. In tourism-dependent economies, these contributions increasingly reference nature-based tourism as a climate co-benefit and identify tourism infrastructure among climate adaptation priorities. As the global stocktaking process matures and implementation expectations intensify, a question has moved to the foreground that the commitment architecture alone cannot resolve: how do these national-level pledges actually reach the operators, destinations, and workforce systems responsible for delivering them? The frameworks exist. The commitments are genuine. Yet across destination ecosystems — from protected-area tourism corridors...

Online event -  You can get tickets on   Eventbrite ​ Date And Time:  Thu, September 30, 2021  6:00 PM-7:30 PM GMT Speakers will include:  Andrea Nicholas Founder of Green Tourism, a world leader in certification in travel and tourism and now aligned with Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency. Andrea has been appointed to the Edinburgh Climate Commission and chairs Catering Scotland’s Awards Committee. She will be talking about how tourism and hospitality businesses can take practical steps to help protect the 1.5° temperature rise. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreanicholasgreentourism/ ​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenTourismUK Website: https://www.green-tourism.com/pages/home   Professor Felix Dodds  International policy expert and adviser on sustainable development and climate change for more than 30 years. Previously executive director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and campaigns director for the United Nations Associati...

This Friday, 25th September, at 10am EST, we will launch our Climate Friendly Travel Registry for 2050 Climate Neutral & Sustainability Ambitions in partnership with the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA). It is a virtual event delivered during Climate Week NYC and in the side-lines of UN General Assembly, and we would like to invite you to join us. The idea of a Climate Neutral 2050 Ambitions Registry was built into the Paris 2015 Agreement, as a way for Parties to transparently declare and progressively increase their Carbon reduction ambitions through 2050, so as to secure global temperature stabilized at tolerable levels for human survival. As a transformation catalyst this Registry will be open to all Travel & Tourism companies and communities, whether they have created a 2050 Carbon Neutral Ambition yet. It will cover transport, hospitality, travel services and infrastructure providers - from t...

This can be read at the guardian web site or here on this blog below “Travelism thrives on peace and sustainability and is an essential contributor to it. Tourism which is such an important contributor to the economies of most countries provides them with a strong incentive to maintain internal security, protect the human rights of their people…..and provide them with expanding opportunities.” Maurice Strong Secretary General of the Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) UN Conferences Next week’s UN Heads of State Summit on Sustainable Development Goals is a key element of a coherent global strategy for a better future for humanity.  By the end of this year, we will have seen 3 such Summits starting with Development Finance in Addis in July and ending on Carbon Targets in Paris in December. Despite its massive societal significance, this is only a staging post in our post industrial development.   For more than half a century, and particularly since the 1...