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‘Climate impacts are already here, increasing in frequency and severity, with monumental costs for humanity and the environment,’ says CELTH director Menno Stokman


‘Time to limit aviation growth and cap flights’


Travel Foundation urges more-radical measures to decarbonise. Ian Taylor reports It warned the current reliance on


Industry-backed sustainability charity The Travel Foundation has called for “limits to aviation growth” and a cap on long-haul trips that could account for 41% of tourism CO2 emissions by 2050. The Travel Foundation also


demanded “substantial government and industry-wide investment”, shifts in modes of transport and support for vulnerable destinations as it finalises a report concluding additional measures to decarbonise must “be applied immediately” to stop the escalation of emissions.


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carbon offsets, technology efficiencies and biofuels “are woefully inadequate”, with global tourism numbers forecast to double by 2050 and without urgent action the industry won’t “come close” to halving emissions by 2030 in line with the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action signed by more than 700 travel and tourism organisations. The report, Envisioning Tourism in


2030, follows a study undertaken with the Centre of Expertise for Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality (CELTH), Breda University, the European


Tourism Futures Institute and the Netherlands Board of Tourism, with input from travel businesses, destinations and industry stakeholders. It concludes destinations and


businesses must take action now to build resilience to changes in visitor patterns and the worsening impacts of climate change. Using ‘systems modelling’ to explore


scenarios, the report’s authors identified a single decarbonisation pathway


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