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Circular economy thinking and tourism

Verantwortlicher Autor: Carlo Marino Rome, 20.07.2018, 15:54 Uhr
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Rome [ENA] From infrastructure and communication to food production and transport, tourism and construction play key roles in a circular economy framework that supports sustainable development. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), together with the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme of the One Planet Network, addressed this challenge during the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable

Development from 9 to 18 July, in New York, USA. Advancing sustainability in the tourism sector and achieving its responsibility in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a task that benefits from new technological advances, continuous innovation and the consolidation of models such as the circular economy. There’s the need to grow responsibly and tourism has an important role to play in the decoupling of economic development from resource use. With its vast links to other economic activities and direct interaction between consumer and producer, tourism can create positive, long-lasting impacts that go well beyond the sector.

But it has to be managed well indeed. Adapting circular production and consumption patterns that accelerate sustainability is therefore key to the long-term health and resilience of tourism businesses and destinations. Concluding the event, the Head of Delegation for Sustainable Development from the Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition of France stressed the need to accelerate the shift towards SCP and encouraged both tourism and construction to build cross-sectorial cooperation. If properly developed and used, circular economy solutions will be instrumental to transforming the sustainability of our economic model.

The One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme is part of the ten-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, official implementation mechanism of SDG12 aiming at sustainability among tourists and tourism stakeholders worldwide. Achieving Goal 12 requires a strong national framework for sustainable consumption and production, sustainable business practices and consumer behaviour, together with adherence to international norms on the management of hazardous chemicals and wastes. Circular economy thinking can enhance this shift because it promotes changes in the consumption and production of goods and services: from buy-use-discard to buy-use-reuse, and from traditional ideas of ownership towards sharing economies.

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