Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions, study shows

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Tourists are big culprits in emissions – and it's getting worse now that countries like China and India have a growing middle class. Globally, the problem is growing at an alarming rate according to new research.

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Greenhouse gas emissions linked to tourism increased by 40% between 2009 and 2019. A boom that journalist Nicolas Chateauneuf returns to on Wednesday, December 11 in the 20 Hours.

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Urgent intervention needed to curb global tourism emissions

As the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C dwindles – expected to run out in just 6 years – a new Nature Communications study has found that greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing faster than global emissions. The new analysis, which considered data for international and domestic travel in 175 countries, found that tourism alone produces 8.8% of the world’s total emissions. Aviation, utilities and private ve…

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It has not been possible to reduce the climate footprint of global tourism. On the contrary, it has increased. Long flights in particular are the culprit, research shows. Experts are calling for taxes on air travel.

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Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy. The study tracked international and domestic travel for 175 countries to find tourism's carbon footprint is 9% of the world's total emissions.

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India among top three contributors to tourism emissions during 2009-2019, study estimates

Rising income levels, especially among the "emerging economic powerhouses of China and India", too could be a driving factor, researchers led by those at the University of Queensland, Australia, said in the study.