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TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONEMBRACING THE PARIS AGREEMENT TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONEMBRACING THE PARIS AGREEMENT: Daniel Scott, Stefan Gössling Brussels, March 2018 URISM AND CLIMAGE CHANGE MITIGATIONBRACING THE PARIS AGREEMENT:THWAYS TO DECARBONISATION Copyright © 2018 European Travel Commission TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONEMBRACING THE PARIS AGREEMENT: All rights reserved. The contents of this report may be quoted, provided the source is given accurately andclearly. Distribution or reproduction in full is permitted for own or internal use only. While we encouragedistribution via publicly accessible websites, this should be done via a link to ETC corporate website: The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression ofany opinions whatsoever on the part of the Executive Unit of the European Travel Commission. Published and printed by the European Travel CommissionRue du Marché aux Herbes, 61, 1000 Brussels, BelgiumWebsite:www.etc-corporate.org Email:info@visiteurope.comon behalf of the following ETC members: Austrian National Tourist OfficeVisit FlandersWallonie Belgique TourismeBulgarian Ministry of TourismCroatian National Tourist BoardCyprus Tourism OrganisationCzechTourism Luxembourg National Tourist OfficeMalta Tourism AuthorityMonaco Government Tourist and Convention OfficeNational Tourism Organisation of MontenegroNBTC Holland MarketingInnovation Norway Daniel Scottis a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at theUniversity of Waterloo, a University Research Chair, as well as the Executive Director of the InterdisciplinaryCentre on Climate Change. He has worked extensively in the areas of climate change, global tourism, and Stefan Gösslingis a professor at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, and theDepartment of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, both in Sweden. His research isfocussed on tourism, transportation and sustainability, specifically climate change. He has worked on behalfof UNWTO, UNEP, UNDP, OECD and the World Bank, and he has been a contributing author to the IPCC’s The European Travel Commission would like to thank the World Travel & Tourism Council for its support inpreparing this report. FOREWORD Climate change is the biggest existential threat facing us on planet earth. It fallsto our generation to comprehensively address it for the sake of those who willfollow. To start taking action, we need to understand our impact and that is what It is beyond doubt that how we are enabling the natural desire to travel, exploreand experience new things is contributing to climate change. And we know thatmore and more people will be able to afford to indulge their desire in the decadesahead. So how can we reconcile meeting people’s natural travel desires with the This report represents a first step. A quest for understanding. The nations of the world came together inParis in December 2016 and agreed on the need for significant reductions in CO2emissions. What does thisambition mean for our sector? What commitments have already been made that will impact on us? What This report recognises the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors in this area –both have a role to play in securing our future. Collaboration at a multinational level will need to be replicatedat national and regional levels if we are to be successful in delivering change. The challenge ahead of us is significant. I hope that this report will give you a sense of the scale of that task,and ideas about the next steps that we need to take together to meet it. The analysis is now done. It is time for us all to act. Peter De WildeETC President EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We all know that climate change is happening. It may seem remote to some of us,but in many of the world’stourist destinations it is now a daily or annual reality. Tourism is both at risk fromclimate change, and one ofits causes. This report is about how tourism can become part of the global solution, rather than part of the Commissioned by the European Travel Commission, it provides the first global analysis of the risks to thetourism industry from climate change. It is also a roadmap towards a low-carbon tourism economy, which willrequire nothing less than a revolution in the sector. While it draws on high-level climate change expertise, it also contains the views and experience of 17 traveland tourism leaders, who acknowledge that the viability of some destinations is seriously threatened, andthat business as usual is no longer possible. The report does not pull its punches. The choices made today will determine the scale of climate change inthe future. According to the World Economic Forum, failure to tackle climate change is the single biggest riskto the global economy. The “very product” is at risk 2016 was the warmest year on record, and extreme events such as d