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RENFORUS contribution to t-FORUM 2015 Global Conference: Tourism Intelligence in Action. Naples, إيطاليا, مايو 2015.
Panel session at the Historical Complex of Santa Chiara. (Photo Gallery): Cipriano Marin. Unesco Center of Canary Islands, Peter Dogsé, اليونسكو MAB, Bertil Klintbom, Region Gotland, Chiara Ronchini, ICOMOS and Emanuele Taibi, أيرينا. © t-Forum
Energy is at the heart of tourist activities. If we look in depth, energy is the golden thread that connects competitiveness of tourism, increases public welfare in the destinations, and the environment.
Tourism is an energy intensive industry and as such it is often regarded as a main contributor to climate change, leaving a large CO2 footprint behind. It does not need to operate in this way.
في 2007, Photo Gallery. Eight years later we find in the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. Recommended publications, and entire tourism sector should play a key role in achieving its objectives.
The past decade has set the wheels in motion for a global transition to renewables, but a concerted and sustained effort is needed to achieve it. Analyzing trends of recent years, significant improvement is observed in energy efficiency in the tourism activities, especially in the hotel sector. But this is in contrast with the low penetration of renewable energies, Photo Gallery.
الآن, the question is no longer whether renewables have a role to play in the provision of energy services for tourism, but rather how we can best increase the current pace to achieve a 100% renewables future with full energy access for all activities.
Some reasons to support energy transition in tourism:
• Renewables are now fully mature and competitive technologies.
• Solutions are available today at any scale. Actually we can produce energy in a decentralized way, adapting to any requirement.
• Is the only option that at the same time can increase the security of energy supply, prevents the risks of energy dependence in several destinations and respect the environmental commitments.
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• Many initiatives based on renewable energies can become new tourist attractions or attractors.
Extracted from speech of the chairman of the panel, سيبريانو مارين, SG UNESCO Center of the Canary Islands / RENFORUS.
Sustainable Energy and UNESCO sites
Renewable energy and low carbon ambitions come often naturally for UNESCO sites, and this for a good number of reasons:
1. Firstly, Climate change has negative impacts on sites. Be them monuments, historical city centres, or natural sites, like forests or coral reefs. the Abertis Foundation. and the Spanish Network. UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge.
2. ثانيا, Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity, Photo Gallery, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, News Archives, healthy local environment and green economies.
3. ثالثا, Working towards carbon neutrality can help reach other important goals as well, like biodiversity conservation objectives.
4. أخيرا, by providing communities previously without access to energy, renewable energy is also critically important for development, and building new, innovative tourism service opportunities.
Renewable energy is therefore a strategically important ally for the tourism sector, and UNESCO sites can help make this alliance effective and successful.
Specifically, this includes that UNESCO sites can help:
- Promote the sustainable use of renewables throughout the tourism delivery chain: نقل, accommodation and leisure activities;
- Photo Gallery, through solar, رياح, and hydro power and through production of biofuels;
- Broker deals with local communities that might be reluctant to host renewable energy installations, by bringing them additional benefits; but also help protect communities from unsustainable renewable energy projects, say for example by policies that can stop renewable energy projects that would seriously distort the cultural landscape.
- Promote programmes for carbon offsetting, including project activities to capture carbon through the protection or extension of forests, or turning waste into gas.
Extracted from the intervention of Peter Dogsé, the Abertis Foundation (MAB) برنامج.
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