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TUI aircraft at Hanover Airport: »Incentive for us to do more than seems possible today«
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Europe's largest travel group TUI wants to reduce its ecological footprint and has set itself binding reduction targets by 2030.
They should apply to the airlines, hotels and cruise ship sectors, as the company announced on Sunday.
To this end, TUI lists a number of measures, such as investments in modern aircraft and sustainable fuel, optimized flight routes, energy savings and local purchases for hotels.
Emissions at
TUI airlines
are to be reduced by 24 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
TUI's airlines account for around 80 percent of the Group's own emissions.
The emissions from the
group's own hotels
are to be reduced by at least 46.2 percent compared to 1990
and that of the
cruise lines
by 27.5 percent.
Technological progress is "an incentive for us to do more than seems possible today," explained TUI boss Sebastian Ebel.
The targets are therefore regularly reviewed and adjusted.
TUI wants to offer climate-neutral cruises by 2030 at the latest - these are to be realized through simultaneous reforestation projects, the details of which have not yet been determined.
However, tree planting is not a panacea for the global environmental crisis.
For successful CO₂ compensation, new forest would have to grow for many decades.
Ensuring that is difficult.
The cruise industry association Clia had announced that its members want to be climate-neutral by 2050.
The efforts made by the industry so far do not go far enough for the Nature Conservation Union (Nabu).
"Environmental and climate protection is often just lip service," said the Nabu a few months ago.
“Toxic but cheap heavy oil remains the fuel of choice for most of the fleet.
Only a few really future-proof projects are being planned and implemented.«
TUI was initially unable to provide any information on the question of whether and to what extent travel costs for holidaymakers will increase as a result of the reduction targets.
After the corona crisis, TUI is about to return to the black.
In the 2021/2022 financial year (until the end of September), the travel provider still posted a loss of 277 million euros.
Tourism contributes to global warming with eight percent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
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