Can Destinations Offer the Solution For Plane Emissions?

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to travel. Actually, it's on the plane. It's us travelers. Flight emissions are bigger than anything we can do on the ground to offset them by not driving, eating local, turning off the lights, going vegan, recycling... ANYTHING. And most offsetting schemes are just that... schemes. But maybe destinations can take up the slack with some smart initiatives until the airlines industry figures out how to build a carbon-neutral plane. In fact, Barcelona is taking such a step right now. Interview with Australian destination marketer CEO Rodney Payne (Destination Think!) who has now refocused his efforts to help destinations find more sustainable solutions.

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Your content is amazing! Keep it up

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Could alternative fuels for aircraft help?

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Not an eye opener but a widener for sure. Thanks for the video!

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First of all, not a fan of interviews where the interviewer prefers hearing himself talk.
Question where being vegetarian comes in as most of the food vegetarians eat is flown in as no vegetarian in for example Europe is willing to eat potatoes all winter.

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Thank you for your concern! Fortunately, we can grow many more crops in Europa than just potatoes. In fact, because of the heating planet, we can now grow crops that wouldn't have survived a few decades ago. There's farmers growing kiwi's now in The Netherlands, without the use of greenhouses. At the same time, avoiding (locally produced) meat, fish and dairy has a much bigger effect on your personal foot print than eating imported produce. The most comprehensive study to date has concluded that what is eaten is far more important in terms of environmental impacts than where and how it was produced. Even the lowest-impact meat - organic pork - is responsible for eight times more climate damage than the highest-impact plant, oilseed. This includes transport in the whole value chain. Most people don't realise that animal feed for livestock in Europa is flown in from South America (and responsible for 96% of the deforestation in the Amazon). The Netherlands is one of the major meat and dairy producing countries. 75% of the meat and dairy we produce is exported abroad. At the same time 75% of the meat we eat is imported, mainly from South American countries. A plant based diet leads to 75% less climate-heating emissions, cuts water use by 54% and the destruction of wildlife by 66%.
Here you can find the full study: www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w