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December 7th
According to a report recently written by the consulting firm The Future Laboratory and published by the company Intrepid, the “solution” that would limit the amount of carbon that travelers emit each year would be a “carbon passport.” From CNN to Business Insider, North American media are starting to promote this idea, in order to familiarise an initially hostile population, and gradually normalise their proposal, following the principle known as the Overton Window.
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The company Intrepid assures that “reducing personal carbon emissions could help prevent pollution and the 'extinction' of vacation destinations in the world, therefore it considers that “if each individual supported the tax on their trips, it would become more egalitarian and regenerative.”
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and other global organisations such as the WHO, affirm that 29% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 “came from transportation, including flights, trains and cars,” and maintain that neither Governments of the world nor travel agencies “are yet close to complying with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, together with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, which sets the criteria to achieve the objectives that “reduce Climate Change” and “Carbon Emissions”.
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Alex Hawkins, the strategic foresight editor at The Future Laboratory (the consultancy firm that wrote the aforementioned report), said such a “carbon passport” could be “necessary eventually.”
“The idea of carbon passports is based on the idea of personal carbon allowances”, adding that it would “impose a cap on how much carbon people are allowed to emit over a certain period of time.”
It should be noted that the UK Parliament designed a similar idea in a 2008 report titled: “Personal Carbon Trading.” “Carbon passports have taken that idea one step further" because they would involve tracking and limiting travel carbon emissions,” specifically, Hawkins added.
“If we were to put certain limits on our individual carbon emissions, that would have different ramifications for all of us,” Hawkins added.
Furthermore, he warned: “if we aren't taking decisive action against the climate crisis, we are
going to potentially see our freedoms curbed in different ways.”
Hawkins believes that for it to work, such a passport would have to be created along with new legislation and technological innovations.
“The idea is good in theory, but in terms of logistics, I don't see how it could come together,” Anna Abelson, an associate professor at New York University's Jonathan M. Tisch Hospitality Center, said of how tracking would work.
Another problem that promoters of the carbon passport idea highlight is that not all travel emissions come from transportation, emphasizing that it must also be resolved how the passenger travels when they arrive at their destination, how they spend their money and where you stay
Since 2021, the Google Flights site has a “carbon emissions meter – or calculator” – which, according to the company, is based on estimates from the European Environment Agency.
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