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Industry leaders call for ‘Radical Collaboration’ at Sustainable Skies World Summit 2024

Travel Daily Media

Virgin Atlantic and British Airways CEO’s call for ‘radical collaboration’ between Government, aviation fuel providers and the wider industry to reach net zero by 2050 Sustainable Skies World Summit 2024. The biofuel will be produced using Haffner Energy’s patented technological process, via the thermolysis of local biomass residues.

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GBTA joins Net Zero Carbon Events initiative as a supporter

Travel Daily Media

It’s crucial that the meetings and events community as a whole joins forces to advance sustainable practices and policies around the globe, and as more organisations come on board, we get closer to our goal of Net Zero by the year 2050.” ” Net Zero Carbon Events is open to all organisations involved in events.

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Events and Carbon Offsets: What You Need to Know

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By 2050, German bank Berenberg projects that the carbon offsets market will be worth approximately $200 billion. Organizers of individual events may opt to add part of the cost to the registration fee or make the fee voluntary. The events industry is helping to grow that market.

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A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Events — and the World

Convene by PCMA

They said: ‘I need to see the reaction of teams of delegations and bump into them in the registration line. 10, representatives from the global event industry presented a Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge , committing to achieving a 50-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, as a pathway to net zero emissions by 2050.

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A Guide to Sustainability Accreditations for Australian Tourism Businesses

Tourism eSchool

Tourism Declares is a call to action to the tourism industry to sign the Glasgow Declaration of Climate Action in Tourism and become a signatory to support the global commitment to halve emissions by 2030 and reach Net zero as soon as possible before 2050.

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Guide to Sustainability Accreditations for Tourism Businesses

Tourism eSchool

Tourism Declares is a call to action to the tourism industry to sign the Glasgow Declaration of Climate Action in Tourism and become a signatory to support the global commitment to halve emissions by 2030 and reach Net zero as soon as possible before 2050.

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Future of Meetings and Incentive Travel: 2025 Top Trends and To-Do’s

Brightspot Incentive Events

However, the European Green Deal, the EU’s push to become climate neutral by 2050, will impact 2025 due to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which forces companies to publish regular reports on the social and environmental risks they face with the first reports due in 2025 for large EU-based companies.