Aviation’s European carbon footprint grew by 16% during 2023

during its participation in a virtual session organized by UN Tourism and the European Travel Commission (ETC) on measuring the carbon footprint of the tourism sector. he study provides a detailed ... Read More

Is Sustainable Travel During a Climate Crisis Actually Possible?

Our cultural horizons have broadened exponentially—but at what cost to the planet? Read More

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The Skift Travel 200 (ST200) combines the financial performance of nearly 200 travel companies worth more than a trillion dollars into a single number, making it easy to track travel industry ... Read More

What’s the carbon footprint of March Madness?

What surprised us most was that the category of travel as a share of the total was lower than in previous studies that analyzed the carbon footprint of sporting events. But that was primarily ... Read More

Find out your carbon footprint with the Mirror's interactive new tool

A new exclusive Mirror tool lets you find out if you're a holiday eco saint or a traveller with a monster carbon footprint ... good news for the eco-minded traveller is that train travel on ... Read More

How to travel without it costing the earth: Sign up to our Climate Conversations event

Slow travel is a growing trend that swaps whistle ... offering practical advice for tackling your carbon footprint, while asking the big questions about the powerful forces behind the climate ... Read More

The 100 Best New Hotels of the Year

It List 2024: The best new hotels of the year, all visited and reviewed by Travel + Leisure's expert editors and contributors. Since 1971, Travel + Leisure editors have followed one mission: to inform ... Read More

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With humanity emitting more carbon skyward, nature-based climate solutions — and their ecosystem carbon storage capacity — are put at risk by agribusiness and extraction industries. Read More

AI may develop a huge carbon footprint, but it could also be a critical ally in the fight against climate change

As such, the carbon footprint of AI is projected to expand due to its high energy consumption and the carbon emissions associated with the production of its hardware. However, the truth is more ... Read More

What’s the carbon footprint of March Madness?

Past research on the carbon footprint of sporting events has primarily ... They don’t consider the environmental impact, for example, of travel to and from the event. So, we wanted to know ... Read More

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The female Hispaniolan solenodon caught by Nicolas Corona in the Dominican Republic. She's awaiting being fitted with a radio collar. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. So, here I am, running in… ... Read More

What’s the carbon footprint of March Madness?

Carbon dioxide equivalent is a way of measuring the impact of several different greenhouse gases at once. A colleague, Alex Cooper, and I came up with this figure based on data for the 2019 NCAA ... Read More