BOUTECO Declares a Climate Emergency
CLIMATE WEEK 2020 | We are proud to announce that we have signed Tourism Declares, an initiative that supports tourism businesses, organisations and individuals in declaring a climate emergency. BOUTECO pledges to support their purposeful action to reduce carbon emissions as per the advice from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030.
“It’s hard to grasp situations that haven’t happened yet, such as the macro outcome of climate change. Although the recent unprecedented pause on travel meant we can see what can be achieved when the negative effects of human activity are halted, and we have hold up examples of how quickly nature can recover if we let it. ”
Like all signatories, we commit to the following five actions:
1. To develop a Climate Emergency Plan within the next 12 months, which sets out our intentions to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade.
2. To share an initial public declaration of our Climate Emergency Plan and update on progress each year.
3. Accept current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our Climate Emergency Plan represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the travel services sold by us.
4. Encourage members of our community, our partners, clients and travel and media industry friends to make the same declaration; sharing best practice among peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community
5. Advocate for change. We recognise the need for system change across the industry, and call for urgent regulatory action to accelerate the transition towards zero carbon air travel.
Please consider also declaring at www.tourismdeclares.com, and follow on @tourismdeclares on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn
As the ever-spiralling-out-of-control global population is one of the most significant contributors to all the ecological factors exaggerating climate change BOUTECO made a documentary about the importance of educating women in remote rural areas — Changing Worlds in the Atlas Mountains.
“ TreeSisters is a charity that facilitates female tree-planting projects in deforested tropical areas. It’s important to consider what trees are planted where, for the maximum sequestering of carbon from the air – and it’s all the better when there is a socio-economic benefit. We think carbon offsetting is a short-term solution, and one of the best ways to tackle climate change, as acknowledged by the United Nations, is to invest in women in remote rural areas: this improves education, means they get married later in life, and have fewer children. ”