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Mastodon AustraliaBargearse (@largess@mastodon.au)Tourism emissions surge over last decade and now make up 9 per cent of global total, report finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/tourism-air-travel-carbon-emissions-surge-environment/104701158
> As Australians gear up for the holiday season, new research reveals the growing environmental cost of global tourism.
>Emissions from the tourism sector have surged by 40 per cent over the past decade and now make up 9 per cent of the world's greenhouse emissions, a new study has found.
>Experts warn the figure could double every 20 years, which is incompatible with the Paris Agreement's goal for the sector to reduce its emissions by more than 10 per cent annually.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
And from
@ClimateHuman@climatejustice.social
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying
>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.
@pvonhellermannn
Indeed, we'll only have a small fraction of current emissions available going forward, we can hardly afford to waste them in non-essentials.
@pvonhellermannn It is huge. I’m not disputing the report but it just doesn’t seem possible that tourism could be 9% of all emissions. How can that be with all the other sources in the world?
@btschumy i know. I was wondering too. But haven’t read it properly yet