Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01207-x" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01207-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01207-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11625-022-01207-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry

Original language description

As many business activities-especially those associated with the energy-intensive industries-continue to be major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and hence significantly contributing to global warming, there is a perceived need to identify ways to make business activities eventually carbon neutral. This paper explores the implications of a changing climate for the global tourism business and its intertwining global aviation industry that operates in a self-regulatory environment. Adopting a bibliometric analysis of the literature in the domain of global tourism and climate change (772 articles), the paper reveals the underlying sustainability issues that entail unsustainable energy consumption. The aviation industry as a significant source of carbon emission within the sector is then examined by analyzing the top 20 largest commercial airlines in the world with respect to its ongoing mitigating measures in meeting the Paris Agreement targets. While self-regulatory initiatives are taken to adopt Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) as alternative fuel production and consumption for drastically reducing carbon emission, voluntary alignment and commitment to long-term targets remain inconsistent. A concerted strategic approach to building up complementary sustainable infrastructures among the global network of airports based in various international tourist destination cities to enable a measurable reduction in carbon emission is necessary to achieve a transformational adaptation of a business sector that is of essence to the recovery of the global economy while attempting to tackle climate change in a post-COVID-19 era.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability Science

ISSN

1862-4065

e-ISSN

1862-4057

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

JP - JAPAN

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

983-996

UT code for WoS article

000852339800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137881227