At COP15 in Montreal, in December 2022, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), UN Tourism and the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance announced a new collaboration to unite public and private sectors towards a shared nature positive vision for travel and tourism to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Signatories from the travel and tourism sector pledged to adopt a nature positive approach to tourism. This includes integrating biodiversity safeguards, reducing carbon emissions, mitigating the impact of pollution, curtailing the unsustainable use of resources, and protecting and restoring nature and wildlife.
This new alliance aims to inspire and support governments, businesses, and civil society in implementing the Post-2020 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), particularly Targets 14, 15, & 16, focused on mainstreaming, assessing and reducing impacts, and promoting sustainable use, respectively. As one of the primary instruments for the sustainable use of biodiversity, the travel and tourism sector plays a pivotal role in implementing the GBF.
