One Planet Consultation Meeting on the Global Strategy for SCP and SDG12

The session was aiming to:

• Introduce the overall approach for the development of the Global Strategy on SCP and SDG 12.
•  Bring together relevant sectoral and enabling initiatives, partnerships & organizations to review, based on existing knowledge, the transformative outcomes needed in the tourism sector to achieve SDG12 and address the triple planetary crisis. 
• Identify priority areas, enablers and catalytic actions where collaboration under the global strategy and across the One Planet network (including the Sustainable Tourism Programme and other One Planet Programmes) would have the highest added-value.
• Agree on a set of work streams that would be part of the future plan of work of the One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme.

 Programme:

Welcome remark and objectives:

• Jorge Laguna-Celis, Head of the One Planet network Secretariat, UNEP

Opening remarks:

• Zoritsa Urosevic, Executive Director, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
• Anne Pluvinage-Nierengarten, Head of the International Multilateral Governance Unit, Ministry for Ecological Transition, France

The Global Strategy on SCP & SDG12,  10YFP/One Planet network Secretariat:

• Jorge Laguna-Celis, Head of the One Planet network Secretariat, UNEP

One Planet network Sustainable Tourism Programme: Recap of achievements and proposed way forward:

• Virginia Fernandez-Trapa, Programme Officer, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Transforming the tourism sector to achieve SDG12: the added value of the strategy and One Planet network

• Part 1 (plenary): Discussing priority areas and enablers for the tourism sector to support implementation of SDG12 and MEAs
• Part 2 (breakout groups): Identifying catalytic actions for potential implementation at destination level and sectoral (and company) level

Closing and wrap-up

Moderator: Virginia Fernandez-Trapa, Programme Officer, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

The presentation is available here.

The summary report (interim version) is available here.

Organizations and institutional stakeholders participated:

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA)

Biodiversity Finance Initiative

Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)

Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Dutch Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (ANVR)

Croatia, Ministry of Tourism

Eco Exploration

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Forum Natura

France, Ministry for Ecological Transition

Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)

GO4SDGs (UNEP)

Griffith University, Australia

Green Fiscal Policy Network

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

International Resource Pannel (UNEP)

International Union For Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

IUCN TAPAS Group

Life Cycle Initiative (UNEP)

Maldives, Ministry of Tourism

Network of European Regions for a Sustainable and Competitive Tourism (NECSTouR)

One Planet Consumer Information Programme

One Planet Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme

One Planet Sustainable Public Procurement Programme

Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)

Panama, Autoridad de Turismo

Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)

Seychelles, Tourism Department

Spain, Secretariat of State for Tourism

Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (SHA)

The Travel Foundation

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Universidad de Valencia

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)

World Wildlife Fund (WWF US)