This was the stark warning from Aisling Connaughton, co-founder of sustainability consultancy CYD Connects, who addressed delegates during the TTG Fairer Travel Sustainability Forum on Tuesday (4 July).
"The climate crisis is not the problem – it is the symptom of an unbalanced governmental and societal system," said Connaughton. "If you don’t have a sustainability strategy, you will not survive – you have to start thinking longer term."
She advised the industry to move away from "carbon tunnel-vision", which is where companies focus only on carbon reduction and ignore the other 16 of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).
