Reducing global tourism carbon emissions

旅游业每年有超过60亿次度假旅行，是气候变化的主要和快速增长的贡献者。为了支持以气候为中心的旅游政策，该项目旨在建立一个世界上第一个全球数据库，回答三个关键问题：1)旅游业的碳足迹是否与其消费成正比增加；2)旅游业多快地减少排放；3)旅游业能否提供比其他部门更好的碳表现？其成果包括关于旅游业碳排放的影响、驱动因素和权衡的新的理论和经验知识。该项目的一个重要好处是确定了能够更好地平衡旅游业、经济收益和稳定排放的缓解政策。

With over 6 billion vacation trips annually, tourism is a major and fast-growing contributor to climate change. To support a climate-centred tourism policy, this Project aims to construct a world’s first global database that answers three key questions: 1) if tourism carbon footprint increases in direct proportion to its consumption, 2) how quickly tourism can decarbonise emissions, and 3) can tourism deliver better carbon performance than other sectors? The outcomes include new theoretical and empirical knowledge about the impacts, drivers, and trade-offs of tourism's carbon emissions. A significant benefit of this Project is to identify mitigation policies that can better balance tourism economic yield and emissions stabilisation.