Carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases

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What do you do when carbon offsetting is off-putting? Plant trees for travel

February 11, 2021

What do you do when carbon offsetting is off-putting? Plant trees for travel

Do you trust travel & tour­ism-related car­bon off­set schemes? Nico Nich­olas and his part­ner Elkie did­n’t, which is why they did some research and foun­ded Trees4Travel. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Nich­olas shares who and what inspired them.  As an entre­pren­eur­i­al couple, Elkie and I have spent our work­ing lives trav­el­ling the globe. We […]

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SUNx Malta to stage first Strong Earth Youth Summit

December 23, 2020

The ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ (SEYS), April 29, 2021

“Good Tour­ism” Part­ner announce­ment: Youth Sum­mit to cre­ate tomorrow’s Cli­mate Friendly Travel lead­ers through a vir­tu­al pro­gram of fun and edu­ca­tion­al events, as well as cre­ate Cli­mate Friendly Travel Cham­pi­ons. SUNx Malta will host the first ever cli­mate friendly youth travel sum­mit in April 2021. The ‘Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit’ (SEYS) will include lec­tures, workshops […]

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Khiri Travel to go carbon-neutral from January 2021

December 7, 2020

Little Home at Phu Langka National Park in Phayao Province, Thailand. Image supplied by Khiri Travel.

Khiri Travel is intro­du­cing com­pre­hens­ive off­set­ting pro­gram with Cli­mate­Care.  The DMC is also offer­ing new low emis­sions ‘slow travel’ hol­i­day options. Asi­an DMC Khiri Travel is on its way to becom­ing fully car­bon neut­ral.  As part of its approach to take respons­ib­il­ity for its impact on the envir­on­ment, Khiri Travel has partnered with cli­mate and […]

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SUNx Malta launches “Climate Friendly Travel Registry”

September 25, 2020

SUNx Malta Launches Climate Friendly Travel Registry Supporting 2050 Climate Neutral & Sustainability Ambitions of Travel & Tourism

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work: Today dur­ing Cli­mate Week NYC and in the side-lines of UN Gen­er­al Assembly, SUNx Malta launched a 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). The idea […]

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Footprints: What does it mean for travel & tourism to be carbon neutral?

September 1, 2020

Kids leave footprints in the sand as they walk along the beach. https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-oecjf

Car­bon neut­ral travel & tour­ism. Net-zero travel. Zero-car­­bon tour­ism. Car­bon footprint(s). Foot­print size. Foot­print depth.  Be care­ful where you step for the whole land­scape is a poten­tial mine­field … loc­ally, nation­ally, and glob­ally … as we nav­ig­ate cli­mate and cli­mate change. Kev­in Phun of “GT” Part­ner the Centre for Respons­ible Tour­ism Singa­pore care­fully touches on all […]

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First SUNx climate-friendly travel think tank releases calls to act & act now

February 29, 2020

bulb moment nature climate fly

The key calls to action from the inaug­ur­al SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work Cli­mate Friendly Travel Think Tank that con­cluded in Malta were (accord­ing to the offi­cial press release): The Cli­mate Crisis is eXist­en­tial. All stake­hold­ers includ­ing Trans­port, Hos­pit­al­ity, Travel Ser­vices, and Infra­struc­ture Pro­viders must urgently start the trans­form­a­tion in 2020 to get onto the Par­is 1.5o […]

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