UNWTO creates web info resource to combat climate change
Sunday, 9 September 2007
NEW YORK, Sept 8 (PTI): As part of its efforts to combat climate change, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has created an information gathering web resource-displaying data, studies, policy papers, videos and other materials.
"This service is a contribution to foster the knowledge base and the search for solutions to face the climate challenge," said the agency's Assistant Secretary-General Geoffrey Lipman of the "Climate and Tourism Information Exchange Service".
"We have to facilitate information exchange and help build networks which will constitute the true basis for concrete action."
UNWTO has spearheaded the study of linkages between climate and tourism, having convened the first-ever International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism in Tunisia in 2003. The second conference will be held in Davos, Switzerland, next month.
"This service is a contribution to foster the knowledge base and the search for solutions to face the climate challenge," said the agency's Assistant Secretary-General Geoffrey Lipman of the "Climate and Tourism Information Exchange Service".
"We have to facilitate information exchange and help build networks which will constitute the true basis for concrete action."
UNWTO has spearheaded the study of linkages between climate and tourism, having convened the first-ever International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism in Tunisia in 2003. The second conference will be held in Davos, Switzerland, next month.