The tourism industry's own climate declaration was made at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November 2021, the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The signatories to the declaration commit to halving their carbon dioxide emissions during this decade and aim to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050.
Jamk University of Applied Sciences signed the declaration on 13.7.2022 and is the first Finnish higher education institution to participate in the declaration. Tourism is one of Jamk's strengths. In addition to training in the tourism industry, Jamk invests heavily in the development of tourism companies, responsible tourism and nature and well-being tourism in its research and development activities.
"Jamk has already set its own goal of being carbon neutral by 2030, and has been promoting sustainable and responsible tourism since 2009 through both training and various development projects. The development work is carried out internationally and nationally with an extensive network of partners," says Petra Blinnikka, Senior Lecturer in Jamk's Tourism, who is the coordinator of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) Finnish network and established an expert network consisting of more than 100 experts in Finland in 2015.
The declaration has been drawn up within the framework of the UN-supported international One Planet network's sustainable tourism programme, and the declaration has already been signed by more than 500 parties around the world, of which about 60 are from Finland. All signatories can be found on the One Planet website.
The Glasgow Declaration is the broadest and most comprehensive position paper on climate change in the tourism sector. The declaration contains a framework that, for the first time, brings together all actors in the tourism sector around common commitments in five different ways: by measuring and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, by reforming policies, by increasing cooperation and by ensuring the necessary funding for development.
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