Blue Community Climate Emergency Declaration

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Blue Community Climate Emergency Declaration

We, the Blue Community Consortium, Declare a Climate Emergency

We’ve signed up to Tourism Declares, an initiative that supports tourism businesses,

organizations, and individuals in declaring a climate emergency and taking purposeful action to

reduce their carbon emissions as per the advice from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC) to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030. 


Like all signatories, we have committed to the following five actions:



1.Develop a ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ - We have had a carbon reduction plan in place for three years now and we have also included climate criteria in our new sustainability assessment app. Specifically we ask in our assessment for all communities and destinations, and what we are tracking in our climate emergency plan, includes but are not limited to the following:


2. Our destination sustainability assessment app includes real time charts and graphs which show changes to recorded and measured data over time.  Communities and stakeholders can then monitor the progress being made in all the areas listed above. In addition our app shows each community or destination how their results compare to the average and how they compare to the best practices.



3. We Accept current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global carbon emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 in order to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming. We’ll ensure our ‘Climate Emergency Plan’ represents actions designed to achieve this as a minimum, through delivering transparent, measurable and increasing reductions in the total carbon emissions per customer arising from our operations and the travel services sold by us.  One of our best practice destinations has already demonstrated the ability to cut net carbon emissions 50% in five years and now is working to cut an additional 50% in the next five years.



4. We are encouraging each of our 35 Blue Community Consortium members our suppliers to make the same declaration; sharing best practice amongst peers; and actively participate in the Tourism Declares community.



5. We are continually advocating for change as evidence by our sending a delegation of 7 people to COP 26 and through our promotion of new carbon reducing technologies which we practice ourselves whenever practical. A good example is our purchasing of the Aptera Solar Electric Vehicle, the first solar powered electric vehicle to replace our current hybrid automobile.