Climate Change and Tourism - UNEP - Division of Technology ...

UNWTO, 9 July 2008
Advances in Climate Change Science and Implications for the Tourism Sector
The IPCC 192 has projected that climate change will continue throughout the 21st century, even if largescale
reductions in GHG emissions occur over the next several decades. The regional manifestations of
climate change that are summarized above are highly relevant for tourism. The impacts of these regional
climatic changes and possible adaptation strategies need to be analysed in detail, in order to account
for the different geographical and societal contexts of tourism around the world. That is the purpose of
the following Chapters.
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