Tourism’s Carbon Challenge: A Climate Emergency

Tourism is a booming global industry, but its environmental impact is becoming harder to ignore. A University of Queensland-led study highlights a worrying trend: greenhouse gas emissions from tourism are growing more than twice as fast as emissions from the global economy. Associate Professor Ya-Yen Sun of UQ’s Business School revealed that tourism now accounts for 9% of the world’s total emissions. Between 2009 and 2019, the industry’s global carbon footprint skyrocketed from 3.7 gigatonnes (Gt) to 5.2 Gt.

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