Over the summer, many of the UK’s favourite holiday destinations were affected by extreme heat, with global warming fuelling heatwaves and wildfires in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
After the hottest summer on record, the tourism industry is under pressure. Yet it is, in part, a victim of its own excesses. The sector is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change but contributes between 8-11% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Tourism must reinvent itself if net zero is to be a possibility by 2050.
The SUNx Program, an EU NGO supported by Malta’s Ministry of Tourism, is helping travel and tourism companies to become more sustainable in line with the target of the Paris Agreement, keeping global warming below 1.5°C.
The project was inspired by Maurice Strong, the…