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Travel urged to discourage 'high-emission short breaks' and set up climate justice fund

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Gary Noakes
26 June 2025

The Travel Foundation has put forward a series of proposals to help tourism adapt to climate change, including creating a register of destinations at risk from global warming, setting up a climate justice fund for destinations and calling for high impact shorter breaks to be discouraged.

Climate Change Environment Sustainability (Credit: Markus Spiske / Unsplash) markus-spiske-cUhssb9roaU-unsplash.jpg

Tourism finds itself increasingly under the spotlight of climate change activists (Credit: Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

The four suggestions form part of a new initiative unveiled at London Climate Action Week this week. A discussion paper, Where Next? Big ideas for tourism’s climate transition, will form the basis of a consultation process leading up to the COP30 UN Climate Summit in Brazil in November.

They include: