Climate response key issue for first Green Growth and Travelism Summer School – Al Gore “climate corps leader” Ignace Schops to be keynote speaker

Published on : Tuesday, March 25, 2014

20140325-0017_mAshoka fellow and Goldman Award holder, Ignace Schops, Director of Belgium`s National Park Hogen Kempen will host and animate a field session during the 2014 Green Growth and Travelism Summer School.

Schops said that “Response to Climate Change and Biodiversity depletion are not only central to humanity`s future, they are at the core of the Travel&Tourism product and service chain.

 

We urgently need to become more sustainable in our daily lives and need a kind of eco-check for new developments. Especially in the Travel&Tourism field some sustainable targets can be easily reached.

 

More embedded in a global sustainable policy framework it can be proved that there are a lot of opportunities that can tackle Climate Change&Biodiversity loss and solve social-economic problems as well.”

Registrations for the first of its kind “Green Growth&Travelism” International Academic Summer School are now open. Its focus will be on climate change, sustainable mobility and biodiversity.

 

This week-long event is for graduate students, industry change makers and tomorrow`s leaders.

 

It is organized through the renowned Transportation Research Institute (IMOB) of Hasselt University, Limburg, Belgium as the first global initiative of a group of Universities collaborating in a new Green Growth and Travelism Institute (GGTI).

 

Announcing the Summer School, the Rector of Hasselt University, Luc De Schepper said: “We are proud to launch this seminal summer school to focus on the role of the pivotal Travel &Tourism Sector.

 

. It fits well with the transport sustainability research in our International Transportation Research Institute and the overall vision of Limburg as a Green and Clean Province.

 

The graduate students and industry executives who enroll in this school will receive intensive quality indoctrination in the real time transformational opportunities and challenges they will confront in the coming years.”

Professor Geoffrey Lipman founder of Greenearth.travel and President of ICTP, one of the directors of the School said: “This is the first of a planned series of educational initiatives to encourage and support Green Growth transformation patterns for the sector.

 

Today`s world is changing rapidly and we are facing economic, social and environmental challenges compounded by intensifying climate change and shifting markets.

 

In order to create a bright future, the concept of Green Growth has emerged as a proactive strategic response.

 

Travel&Tourism – Travelism (in twitter language) is increasingly recognized as a key element of sustainable global socio-economic development.”

The Summer School will explore and explain these concepts, showing how the development of the Travelism value chain can both adapt to meet the changing global challenges and turn them into opportunities.

 

A major element will be to look at the impacts along with the benefits of travelism – and the metrics and measures that are needed to assess and balance both sides of the equation.

 

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