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UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goal Tourism & Climate Change Beyond Triple Bottom Line Geoffrey Lipman Assistant Secretary General

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UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

Tourism & Climate Change

Beyond Triple Bottom Line

Geoffrey Lipman

Assistant Secretary General

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

PovertyClimate

SARS

Avian Flu

Tsunami

Terrorism

Oil

Economy

Environment

Infrastructure

SecurityCompetition

Skills

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

PDA, MobileCamera

Internet, Blogs & Communities

Multimedia

24 on 7 on 365

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• ‘Action over the coming few decades …… risks of major socio-economic disruption …

• later in this century & next, on a scale similar to the great wars & economic depression of the first half of the 20th century.’

The Stern Report (2006)

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

Davos Declaration 2007

Tourism

&

Climate Change

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Realities Agreed

• Holistic Response

• 2050 – Start Now

• Tourism is Good

• Quadruple Bottom Line

• 5% Emissions & Economy

• Weakest Most Vulnerable

The Davos Declaration

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Mitigation

• Adaptation

• Technology

• Financing

The Davos Declaration

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Governments

• Industry

• Consumers

• Research/Media Nets

The Davos Declaration

• Action Catalogue

• Information Exchange

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

1. Framework

2. Challenges

3. Opportunities

Core Issues

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Timely

• Pedigree

• 2050 – Start Now

• UNWTO lead

1. Framework

• UN Response Structure

• How to Operationalise

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Action

• Cultural change

• Solidarity

• Poverty Cohesion

• Market Response

• Wise Aviation Growth

2. Challenges

ThinkBeforeYouFly.com

“It’s a sin to fly” - church

Places to See before THEY Die”AirportPledge.org

PlaneStupid.com“I Stay home” - Prince Charles

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Long Distance: Over Sea: Hard Terrain: Small Islands.

• Trade

• Poor Country Service Export

• Small but fast growing

• More than CO2

• Big Relative Increase

• No Quick Fix

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• First Movers

• Technology

• Financing

• Innovation

3. Opportunities

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

Roadmap

2050

Reduce today’s

GHG50 – 70%

Davos “Stakeholders”

London “Ministerial”

UN Bali “Summit”

Djerba Declaration 2003

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

20152015MDG

20502050Reduce

GHG50 - 70%20072007

NewUN

Roadmap

Roadmap

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

Roadmap

2050

Reduce today’s

GHG50 – 70%

Finance

Technology

Adapt

Mitigate

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Slow

• Buzzwords

• Routine

• Slogans

Triple Bottom Line ?

1990 – 2007 “Going Green”

UNWTO- Committed to Tourism, Travel and the Millennium Development Goals

• Climate

• Environment

• Economic

• Social

Quadruple Bottom Line

2007 ……