Transforming tourism for climate resilience
The Climate Change Action cluster brings together tourism and climate change experts who aim to help tourism businesses, destinations, governments, and regional organisations to reduce climate change risk. This outcome is achieved by decarbonising tourism-related operations in line with the Paris Agreement and successfully adapting to mitigate the increasing impact of climate change.
Cluster Lead:
Sustainable Development Goals
Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to creating sustainable cities and communities and tackling global challenges around climate action, life below water, and life on land.
Our expertise
Our researchers have expertise in:
- Carbon footprint analysis: We comprehensively analyse destinations and recommend carbon footprint mitigation strategies.
- Impact assessment: We assess tourism’s vulnerability to climate change impacts and provide recommendations to address them.
- Policy and governance analysis: We assess how tourism and climate change policies are integrated and evaluate governance effectiveness, including the enabling environment, to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Climate change strategies: We identify climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies that help balance the impact of tourism on the environment and broadly contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Climate Change Action cluster members actively participate in international science review panels such as the Executive Board of the Tourism Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their works inform policy recommendations and contribute to advancing science-based climate action across the global tourism system.
Examples of recent projects include:
- Calculating carbon emissions and development of future emission scenarios for some 色情网站n destinations
- Identifying holistic climate risk reduction strategies in Vanuatu
- Informing tourism governance to intensify climate change action
- Developing a project plan for decarbonising tourism in the Whitsundays
- Reviewing climate science and policy in Australasia
Our researchers
- Megan French
- Yaiwei Jiang
- Abraham Leung
- Gui Lohmann
- Stefan MacAskill
- Kalara McGregor
- Valerio Rodrigues de Souza Neto
- Hamid Talebi
- Sera Vada