Building up an ecologically sustainable and socially desirable post-COVID-19 future

Duflot, Rémi; Baumeister, Stefan; Burgas, Daniel; Eyvindson, Kyle; Triviño, María; Blattert, Clemens; Kuparinen, Anna; Potterf, Mária

doi:10.1007/s11625-021-00940-z

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“…The suggestions of mitigation policies and strategies to reduce emissions systematically for a transition into global sustainability in a post-COVID-19 era have been elaborated in recent scientific literature (Duflot et al 2021;Ranjbari et al 2021). It is advocated that green infrastructures and systems can be built within the airport facilities to enhance the energy sustainability of their operations as a significant part of the carbon emission mitigation strategies (Santa et al 2020;Ng et al 2021;Bragge et al 2022).…”

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Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry

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As many business activities-especially those associated with the energy-intensive industries-continue to be major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and hence significantly contributing to global warming, there is a perceived need to identify ways to make business activities eventually carbon neutral. This paper explores the implications of a changing climate for the global tourism business and its intertwining global aviation industry that operates in a self-regulatory environment. Adopting a bibliometric analysis of the literature in the domain of global tourism and climate change (772 articles), the paper reveals the underlying sustainability issues that entail unsustainable energy consumption. The aviation industry as a significant source of carbon emission within the sector is then examined by analyzing the top 20 largest commercial airlines in the world with respect to its ongoing mitigating measures in meeting the Paris Agreement targets. While self-regulatory initiatives are taken to adopt Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) as alternative fuel production and consumption for drastically reducing carbon emission, voluntary alignment and commitment to long-term targets remain inconsistent. A concerted strategic approach to building up complementary sustainable infrastructures among the global network of airports based in various international tourist destination cities to enable a measurable reduction in carbon emission is necessary to achieve a transformational adaptation of a business sector that is of essence to the recovery of the global economy while attempting to tackle climate change in a post-COVID-19 era.

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Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry

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“…Concerning the social-economic-environmental ongoing crisis, questions were raised about inequality's role in environmental deterioration [24]. Some researchers claim that the COVID-19 crisis is a direct cause of the ecological crisis and prevents its resolution [25], considering that inequality leads individuals to adopt consumerist and individualistic behaviors toward the environment [26]. Heerink et al [27] stated that inequality involves the concentration of affluence amongst wealthy groups, more aware or informed, whose activities produce less environmental pressure.…”

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“…After 2019, the current COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the problems that may arise from a degraded biosphere. It shows that human societies are vulnerable, unevenly equipped, and unprepared to cope with global calamities [25].…”

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“…Resource depletion affects future energy/resources available; their relative scarcity deepens, and over time, crisis and environmental burden become less and less reversible. Humanity's dependence on ecosystems exposed by the Covid19 crisis is the current example of the magnitude of our resilience towards an uncertain future [25]. Figure 5d shows a situation where human activities exceed the capacity of the Planet (e.g., consuming the entire amount of a nonrenewable resource-such as fossil fuels) and that the carrying capacity is decreased due to a lack of reinforcement on the natural environment.…”

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What Are the Stimuli to Change to a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society?

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The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how inadequately prepared humanity is to manage global disasters. Conversely, this crisis also offers an exceptional opportunity to move towards a more equitable and sustainable future. This paper explores three stimuli that can lead people to the change towards sustainable Post-COVID-19 societies: crises, knowledge, and alternative paradigms. From a theoretical approach, the paper addresses the roles of each stimulus and the capacity they may have, individually or together, to encourage the debate about the relationship between environmental conditions and human crisis. This study contributes to the discussions on the importance of strategic transformations of the global consumption and production systems. It takes this unique opportunity to move towards a more sustainable future. Moreover, it urges that this transformation process be articulated with alternative paradigms that seek to go beyond inequalities, conflicts, imbalanced development, and ecological deterioration.

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“…We are confident that our readers will appreciate this contribution toward (re)thinking the post-COVID-19 period in a desirably more sustainable world, which will always be necessary in a permanently built balance between society, nature, and technology [18]. In this balance, citizenship exercised in a conscious way, scientific interdisciplinarity, the community-scientists-political decision relationship and communication, and collective cooperation (group, national, and transnational) are crucial elements for success in achieving this goal [3,21].…”

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