Making the Business Case for Climate Smart Investments: Guidelines for the Tourism Sector

Published on November 15, 2021

These guidelines aim to support tourism sector businesses in identifying potential sources of finance, and in structuring and developing finance proposals for mitigation actions. Although the guidelines focus on accommodation service providers and event organizers with their own venues, the general guidance could also apply to other tourism businesses planning to develop a financial proposal for mitigation actions.

This publication has been commissioned by the Economy Division of UNEP as part of the "Transforming Tourism Value Chains in developing countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to accelerate more resilient, resource efficient, low carbon development" project developed in the framework of the International Climate Initiative financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.