10 Highlights #InTheNews this week re. #sustainable #travel #tourism & #development

1/ #Climate: #GlobalWarming likely to break key 1.5C limit for 1st time: 66% chance between now & 2027-temporarily, but showing warming is accelerating, not slowing. Need to cut #emissions! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65602293 #sdg13

2/ Climate/#Consumption: More than half of the #world’s #lakes have shrunk in past 30 years, 2bn affected https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-lakes-have-shrunk-in-past-30-years-study-finds #climatecrisis #water #cleanwater #sdg6 #consumption #sdg12 #overconsumption #agriculture

3/ #Conservation: #Biden on $1b #AmericaTheBeautiful #environment - #Sustainability in a nutshell -"You take care of it, it can go on forever...it's impossible to put an economic price on that" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/watch-live-joe-biden-conservation-america-b2337318.html #30x30

4/ Conservation/Climate: No-brainer > #Reuse - #Recycle - #Replace to slash #Plasticpollution by 80% by 2040, #UN says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/16/plastic-pollution-could-be-slashed-by-80-by-2040-un-says #plastic #plastics #biodiversity #sdg14 #sdg15 #environment

5/ Climate/#Health: yet they manage it >#Developingcountry voices will be excluded at #UN #plastic talks say #NGOs https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/18/scientists-say-they-have-been-locked-out-of-the-room-at-unep-talks-on-plastic-waste #plastics #plasticpollution #communities #toxicology #recycle #reduce #Paris

6/ Conservation/Climate: Top #UK #surfer slams sport for relying on boards & wetsuits mass-produced from petrochemicals that create tonnes of #waste https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65563622 #surf #surfing

7/ #Community/#Culture: 1 way to refocus on #qualitynotquantity> #Bali to explore quota system to crack down on misbehaving #travellers & tourism: #tourists to be limited & register a year in advance? https://7news.com.au/news/world/bali-to-explore-quota-system-to-crack-down-on-misbehaving-travellers-c-10590992

8/ Conservation: Why are #India’s #lions increasingly swapping the #jungle for the #beach? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/why-are-indias-lions-increasingly-swapping-the-jungle-for-the-beach-aoe #lion #sdg15 #endangeredspeciesday #endangeredspecies #species #asiatic #asia #gurjarat

9/ Community/Conservation > ‘Six times the size of #Yosemite’: the new #tribal #sanctuary off the super-rich #California #coast https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/18/six-times-the-size-of-yosemite-the-new-marine-sanctuary-for-the-super-rich-la-coast #Chumash #NationalParks #indigenous #marine #protectedarea #marinesanctuary

10/ Climate: Man #kayaks #Greenland coast in 'poo-centric #expedition':?collecting from sea mammals to check micro#plastics; & only eating #Greenland diet - all #food foraged/hunted- to study gut #impact https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-65584115