Draft statement for participants as a contribution to the Copenhagen Process
The organizational partners setting up this Symposium will produce a draft statement to present to participants as a contribution to the Copenhagen Process, outlining the importance of the sector as well as the role of the sector in a post-Kyoto emissions-regulated economy experiencing much greater economic, environmental and social changes. It will highlight the development of the global green economy as a means to ensuring the sustainability of the tourism sector, and spell out how the implementation of both UN/EU good governance processes and the global and European knowledge economy can be used to catalyse the tourism sector as a driver of sustainable consumption and production in the global as well as national and regional economies.
The statement will include:
- Sector Needs from the Copenhagen process – support for a comprehensive climate change agreement that protects the economic, environmental and social base of the tourism sector, built on the Davos Declaration process and the Seal the Deal campaign.
- Development of the Global Green Economy – sustainable consumption and production as a response to both climate change and social transformation, with the tourism sector playing a catalytic cross-cutting role to improve sustainability of agricultural, industrial energy and transport sectors.
- Policy tools for good governance – what tools are available from UN and EU level to encourage and support NTOs in their contribution to more sustainable national and regional tourism activities.
- Knowledge networking for more sustainable tourism development – post Symposium actions
The UNWTO wishes to see European NTOs following the policy lines that contribute towards the global green economy, and the conference conclusions should provide for follow up activities.
The Declaration will be fed into the EU road to Copenhagen process via the European Commissions online web consultation process (see below).
If you wish to add your comments to the Symposium declaration you can send them to Gordon Sillence [email protected], copied to Luigi Cabrini [email protected]. You can comment directly on the Copenhagen process by going to www.road-to-copenhagen.eu.
For Further information on this draft please contact
Gordon on [email protected] 00351913315092
