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Thesis Results # 4 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓’𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝑷𝑪𝑪 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝑫𝑪𝒔 (𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 # 3) 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔. Orchestrated by UN World Travel Organisation (UNWTO) -  🔻 1st Conference on Climate Change and Tourism happened in 2003, 🔻 2nd Conference on Climate Change and Tourism happened in 2007, 🤯 3rd conference of similar scale and objective happened in 2021. Despite the efforts began in 2003, 21 years later, research argues that: ❇ The Sector’s net-zero roadmap, still, is by and large not evidence-based (𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮). ❇ There is, still, a missing of (𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥) sector-wide emission monitoring system. ⏩ It is obscure how any signatory organisation such as Tourism Declares Climate Emergency could work ⁉ ⏩ (𝘖𝘳 𝘞𝘛𝘛𝘊’𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩?) 💡 💡 💡 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 🔐 : 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐏𝐂𝐂 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐃𝐂𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬. 🍀 🍀 🍀 Extracted from 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦: 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑂𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟-𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. PM or comment below if you wish to have a full copy.

Thesis Results # 3 𝑰𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆 ? Measured by the Sector’s weights in the IPCC (𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦) and in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) (𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦): ❇ Summary of Policymakers has the highest political significance among the IPCC reports. Yet, tourism sector is not mentioned in their 1st, 3rd, and 5th versions. 🔻 In the latest version (6th), tourism sector is merely mentioned among a list of highly climate-change exposed sectors. ❇ In 2019, only 41% of the submitted NDCs mention “tourism”. 🔻 Among those NDCs, 24% connect with adaptation and just 8% connect with mitigation. 💡 💡 💡 Key message 🔐 Tourism sector is mis-prioritised in both global and national environmental governance seeing its economic, social, and climate significance (see Thesis # 2). 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 ❓ Because research shows that misaligned priority is missed resource opportunities, including external climate change funding 💸 . 🍀 🍀 🍀 Extracted from 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦: 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑂𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟-𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. PM or comment below if you wish to have a full copy.

🌍✨ "Net zero emissions" is more than just a buzzword—it's a mission for governments at all levels and businesses alike, driving them to commit to ambitious climate goals. But the big question remains: Can carbon offsetting alone carry us to these aspirations? 🤔💡 Members of the not-for-profit EarthCheck Research Institute, Dr. Susanne Becken and Professor Graham Miller, have lent their expertise to an essential paper addressing this crucial issue. Let's dive into the highlights of their insights. 📚🌱 #NetZero #ClimateAction #Sustainability #CarbonOffsetting #EarthCheck

Companies should not make big promises to cut down their carbon footprint relying on carbon credits alone! Instead, they need to reduce the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere from their activities by changing the way they operate, and also support nature by protecting the forests, oceans, and other natural systems that soak up carbon from the air. They should be aiming at achieving real change and not just a “net zero” certificate. #climatecrisis #netzerocarbon #carbonfootprint #sustainability

The Journey Begins: Circular Economy in Mediterranean Insular Regions 🌍 Over the next few weeks I will be sharing different aspects of my research highlighting the most important results, ideas and reflections not only I but the important actors I interviewed shared. 🌟 Why islands? Why Circular Economy CE? The Mediterranean islands of Corsica 🏔️, Sardinia 🌅, and the Balearic Islands 🏖️ are at a crossroads. As regions with fragile ecosystems 🌱, limited local resources, and economies heavily dependent on tourism, their futures are tied to sustainability. 📚 In my PhD research, I explored: - The current state of CE implementation in these regions. - How geographic isolation and economic dependencies challenge CE. - Practical solutions to transition from a linear to a circular economic model. 💡 What makes islands unique in the CE conversation? Their self-contained nature offers a perfect microcosm to test innovative strategies. What works here can inspire global change. 🌊 In this series of posts, I’ll share findings, challenges, and lessons learned. Follow along as we navigate this transformative journey together! 🚀 #CircularEconomy #SustainabilityMatters #PhDResearch

🍞 Freshly minted research, just published and on the shelves in Tourism Geographies. 🌍 Climate change and tourism geographies 🚹 Authors: Stefan Gössling, Linnaeus University; Western Norway Research Institute Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo ♻️ No destination at any scale has comprehensively assessed their combined climate and carbon risk, limiting effective climate action. The state of climate change adaptation and the capacity of current adaptations to successfully cope with future climate change remains a key knowledge gap, as does the scalability and sustainability of current adaptation and any associated co-benefits for destinations. ♻️ Even though climate change is humanity’s foremost challenge, it is important to acknowledge that impacts co-evolve with and are amplified by other developments. Chief among these are: i) humanity’s critical interference with planetary boundaries; ii) the reality of a new geopolitics triggered by the Ukraine war; and iii) patterns of inequality - which in many countries have contributed to populism and polarization. With regard to planetary boundaries, tourism is affected by and contributes to changes in biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater use, ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows, stratospheric ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol loading and chemical pollution. Yet, tourism’s entanglement with these dimensions of global environmental change remains insufficiently well understood, as research has focused on only those aspects that have direct relevance for the sector (biodiversity, land use, fresh water), and even for these dimensions, the global situation remains unclear. 🆓 This article is available OPEN ACCESS and FREE to download. https://lnkd.in/g6Qabsxb?

It is often the case that businesses jump into a solution before understanding the problem, and is very much the case in the sustainability world. We assume that everyone is on the same page with climate science, climate risks the terminology around carbon costs or greenhouse gas emissions but the knowledge gap is surprisingly big. Thankfully The Carbon Literacy Project developed a training course for the exact reason to equip individuals and teams with the required #climatechange knowledge so they could take action that is in line with the latest science. As part of the TerraVerde Sustainability team I am honoured to hold a Carbon Literacy course tailored to the #travel and #tourism sector in less than 2 weeks. Professionals working in #hospitality, travel businesses, DMOs, tour operators, #eventmanagement are all welcome to join me for a 2 half-day online learning experience on 21 and 22 October. Apart from understanding how climate change is effecting the sector you will acquire skills on how to lower your product's carbon footprint and develop #sustainabletourism strategies. All participants will have the option to become certified upon the completion of the course. Keen to become a certified Carbon Literate citizen or organisation? Sign up here:

🌅 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟: Training Course in 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆! 🇮🇹 Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to make a difference in the fight against climate change? If you are ready to spend a few days on the Italian coast, working on yourself and the planet, this opportunity is for you! ⬇️ 📝 𝗧𝗖 ''Green IT'' 🗓 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: June 5th - 13th, 2024 📍 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Marina di Massa, Italy 👥 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀: 3 👤 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: ・Age 18+ ・Able to communicate in English ・Interested in sustainability and environmental issues ・Open to networking with like-minded individuals During this project, you'll have the opportunity to: 1️⃣ Learn about sustainable practices and the importance of reducing carbon and digital footprints. 2️⃣ Engage in activities highlighting the impacts of climate change and participate in sustainable practices 3️⃣ Develop a protective instinct towards nature and support its preservation 4️⃣ Harness digital tools effectively to combat climate change 5️⃣ Advocate for environmental action through online platforms ALL EXPENSES ARE FULLY COVERED ✅ 📌 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: April 15th Take the first step towards becoming a leader in the fight against climate change. 🌍✊ For more details and the application form, visit the link: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dGXjddnE #BRAVO #MAKETHEWORLDWONDER #ClimateAction #Sustainability #YoungLeadership #EUClimateInitiative

The UNDP’s course on "Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Development" focuses on building capacity to apply nature-based solutions (NbS) that address global environmental challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainable resource management. Learning objectives typically include understanding how NbS can be integrated into policies to enhance resilience against climate impacts, protect biodiversity, and support sustainable economic growth. Participants gain skills in identifying and designing NbS projects, aligning them with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and evaluating the social, economic, and environmental benefits of such solutions.

👇🏼 Looks like collapse analysis is going more mainstream. 😛 My attempt to introduce a collapse analysis into tourism studies and practice was a rocky road, with a not to be named journal knocking it out in peer review claiming it was alarmist and a polemic more suited to elsewhere (despite the fact it was submitted as a perspective"). 🚶🏼♂️ So elsewhere it went to the Journal of Tourism Futures. I applied Jem Bendell's deep adaptation framework to think through how tourism might be transitioned to a time when collapse of our systems is inescapable (hint: now). The four pillars of the framework are:  resilience, relinquishment, restoration and reconciliation. "The point of Bendell's analysis is not to search for illusive/elusive solutions to climate change but rather determine how best to come to terms with the stark reality of the situation we face. Bendell’s work recommends developing a dialogue and fostering a community of practice to save what we can and to develop care in this context of disruption and collapse. In this viewpoint, this framework is used as a tool to consider how we might make a deep adaptation in tourism practices, tourism education and tourism research in the face of such possible futures." https://lnkd.in/e2bNJzZT https://lnkd.in/g264zqmB