Day 1 – Climate Change and Tourism

The first lesson of this course looks at the concept of CFT and its community specific application, the potential benefits to stakeholders – especially NTO’s – from its UNFCCC linked Registry system. It also covers community building by Strong Climate Champions and support services from SDG 17 Partners.

Highlights

• Welcome & Introduction
• Code Red Crisis
• Climate Change – the Existential Crisis
• Why is Climate Change the defining issue of our times?
• What is Climate?
• Climate Challenge from beyond Tourism
• Maurice Strong & the UN SDG & Paris Agenda

Presentations

• Prof Geoffrey Lipman
• Dr. Eduardo Santander
• Prof Daniel Scott
• Prof Susanne Becken
• Late Maurice Strong
• Achim Steiner
• Prof Felix Dodds

Additional resources

• Naomi Klein on Extinction Rebellion, the Green New Deal and fast fashion
• Naomi Klein on the Global Climate Crisis and Her New Book
• Maurice Strong
• The Earth Charter
• Resource materials on The Earth Charter Index: Measuring the Contributions of Countries to Planetary Well-being