Impact

Between 2009 and 2013, 8% of greenhouse gases emissions came from tourism, that share grew ever larger especially after COVID. Today tourism represents xx% of all greenhouse gases emissions.

While traveling in Africa, I saw firsthand the consequences of climate change on wildlife, landscape and especially its people. Droughts are more extreme, access to water is getting harder, etc. Cattle and wild animals are dying because of a lack of grazing pasture. Conflicts between locals and willife occurs as they all battle for the same area.

When attending a photography workshop, most of the participants arrives from another continent which means long haul flights thus airplane transportation is the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions.

While some detractors would discourage such workshops because of the carbon emissions emitted, I believe that responsible tourism has its place in the photography industry and solutions can be found to circumvent its emissions and have a positive impact.

A first solution is to offset the carbon emissions of the transportation. While carbon offsetting shouldn't be the only solution, it's nonetheless a tool at our disposal. Every