NTO follow up on global and European policy lines, programmes and networking processes
Wednesday, 09 Dec, 2009
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With UNWTO joining the UNEP initiative on the Green Economy on behalf of the tourism sector, other international entities and national administrative bodies should be encouraged to develop greater coherence between economic and environmental departments.
NTOs and NTAs need to be supported by their national departmental counterparts who deal with the implementation of SCP in general and environmental issues in particular, and, who can, in turn, support tourism sector environmental and economic initiatives where appropriate. Therefore, it is recommended that the Symposium report reaches those national-level stakeholders who would be interested in developing this collaborative approach.
The good governance of the sector cannot be omitted from any sustainable development strategies and corporate and government administrators should be encouraged to learn about and adopt the value systems of sustainable development as expressed in the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics and the EU‟s Better Regulation and Impact Assessment procedures.
Above all, both consumer and corporate social and environmental responsibility must be encouraged throughout the tourism supply chain, by both voluntary and regulatory means.
This report encourages all stakeholders to use existing collaboration processes in order to work even more closely together to forge a common vision of the global green economy within the UNFCCC process, both before and after Copenhagen. In cooperation with others, tourism stakeholders can then compose their own time-tabled plans and programmes for tourism sector sustainable development.
In conclusion, UNWTO, ETC and their partners invite European NTOs to support the above policies and to follow up those programmes that contribute towards the development of the global green economy. This Gothenburg Symposium report encourages all tourism stakeholders to use any opportunity available to contribute input to the Copenhagen talks, to the Seal the Deal campaign and to the EU‟s Road to Copenhagen initiative.
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