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June 9, 2023World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

CASE STUDY FROM BETTER PLACES: TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN CLIMATE ACTION

Better Places’ work on climate action began before the company did. The company’s CEO Saskia Griep used to work at another...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Sectors
Tourism
Resource
March 15, 2023World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

CLIMATE PROOF INVESTMENT GUIDE FOR A SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT TOURISM

This guide was developed under ADAPTUR Project. The ADAPTUR project (Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in the...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Guidelines and Manuals
Sectors
Tourism
Resource
December 12, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Travel and Climate

Travel and Climate is an open source methodology developed to support tool used by Swedish DMO Goteborg & Co. This resource...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Technical Tools
Sectors
Tourism
Resource
October 3, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Lighting Installation As A Service

The "produce more and sell more" business model could become outdated due to Philips' "product-as-a-service" strategy, which...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Sectors
Tourism
Energy
Resource
October 3, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Recycling Food Waste into Water

Participating with ORCA, The Cordis Hotel in Auckland launched an innovative recycling initiative uses microbes to break down...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Regions
Africa
Asia/Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
Latin America/Caribbean
Middle East
North America
Sectors
Food & Beverage
Tourism
Resource
September 30, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Beer from Potato Peel

A typical solution to excess food waste from Albert Heijn Supermarkets in Amsterdam is to collect all its fruits, vegetables...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Sectors
Food & Beverage
Tourism
Consumer Goods
Resource
September 30, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Repurposing Cork Stoppers

NH Hotel Group has strengthened its signature circular economy programme, CORK2CORK, through which it provides the cork...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Sectors
Tourism
Buildings and construction
Resource
September 30, 2022World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Self-Sustaining Aquarium

The QO hotel has a self-sustaining aquarium that grows fish for food, whose waste provides an organic fertilizer for...

Organisation
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Type
Case studies, Concrete Applications and Best Practices
Sectors
Food & Beverage
Waste, incl. Chemicals
Tourism
Buildings and construction
Project
September 7, 2022Chalmers Industriteknik

Behavioural insight to promote reusable cups – a field study on reducing the use of single-use cups in Sweden

Globally, over 500 billion single-use cups are consumed annually of which between 250-300 billion are plastic-lined paper...

Organisation
Chalmers Industriteknik
Resource
June 30, 2022One Planet Network

62 ways of enabling sustainable consumption: A collection of examples from research in Mistra Sustainable Consumption

As previously mentioned, the goods we consume cause extensive negative consequences for both people and the environment. This...

Organisation
One Planet Network
Type
Research and Studies
Sectors
Water
Food & Beverage
Transport
Environmental Services
Agricultural and Fishery
Tourism
Textiles
Plastic
Health
Energy
Consumer Goods
Education
Resource
June 27, 2022International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Guidelines Just Transition

Organisation
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Type
Guidelines and Manuals
Sectors
Food & Beverage
Tourism
Buildings and construction
Policy
February 9, 2022Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Single Use Plastic – directive and other measures for a sustainable use of plastics

This Directive promotes circular approaches that give priority to sustainable and non-toxic re-usable products and re-use...

Organisation
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Type
Legal/Regulatory instrument