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United Nations World Tourism Organization Tourism’ s Role in Global Climate Change Delegation of Italy Kara Goldstein Clarkstown HS North As recently seen throughout the world, global climate change is a severe concern. This serves as a threat to ecosystems and environmental sectors throughout the world. More on people’ s minds, however, is the economic effects climate change is having on the international community. Specifically, global warming has a huge effect on tourism industries, and other sectors associated with it. In order to salvage the world’ s economic and environmental situation, individual nations, as well as various NGO’ s and international bodies need to work together, while improving their individual status at the same time. Climate change has a huge effect on Italy. It has been proven that Italy’ s climate is heating up four times faster than the rest of the world. Specifically in the Alps, the increase in heat causes a gradual melting of snow, and the decrease in glacial volume. Both of these components pose the potential for Glacier Lake Outburst Floods. Global warming also has induced the upward migration of alpine plants. In the Venice Lagoon and Mediterranean Sea, the sea-level has risen, the shoreline has retreated, sediment dynamics have been altered, and many other aquatic problems have resulted from global climate change. Although these are not the only areas affected by climate change, they are three main tourist areas, and as their status decreases, so does the profit margin from tourism. As a whole, global climate change poses a huge threat to Italy’ s economy, therefore prompting a governmental response. Italy’ s government has been very dedicated to their commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and the Climate Change Convention, as well as other commitments. As a result, Italy has insinuated various legislation to help reach its goal of energy emission reduction, and has done so even prior to signing the Kyoto Protocol in 2002. Italy also supports the work of the IPCC, and has expressed that through the contribution of four Italian scientists, in addition to financial aid. In addition, CIPE (the Inter-ministerial Committee for Economic Planning) has been working diligently to achieve Italy’ s GHG emissions reduction objective. By revising the guidelines for national policies in cooperation with other international organizations, CIPE has come up with six main strategies to help combat climate change in Italy, mainly dealing with promotion of alternative energy promotion, and efficiency of energy storing by the promotion of carbon sequestration. The new government, implemented in 2006, has been specifically dedicated to eradicating this problem, and has begun an extensive review of national policy, consistently affirming its dedication to reach the Kyoto commitments. Throughout the years, domestic efforts have accounted for 80% of the reduction effort, while Kyoto suggestions have accounted for 20% of the effort, reinforcing that the Italian government has done its part in promoting change on a national level. Banning nuclear energy and creating carbon taxes are just a few specific examples of the effort we have put into this issue. Our local governments have also tried to translate national legislation into regional possibilities. We have also tried to help developing nations and economies in transition by encouraging bilateral exchanges of research approaches, information, and methodologies. We believe that international cooperation is a huge part in achieving our goal of a cleaner, more prosperous world, and that developing nations should have aid from their more developed partners. The main question now is; what can the rest of the world do. The Delegation of Italy believes that an international mitigation system should be implemented, which is modeled off of Italy’ s system of bilateral talks between developed and developing nations. We believe this is an integral part in reaching our goal. Many developing nations and SIDS see Western nations as a threat, but through this system, we can prove them wrong, and show that we have the world’ s best interest at heart. The Delegation of Italy also requests NGO aid in monitoring the environmental progress in various nations, and to make sure these nations are in line to reaching the Kyoto requirements. The Delegation of Italy, in conjunction with the rest of EU delegations supports these monitoring procedures, and believes that they are a good indication of where the world stands. We also suggest the international promotion of alternative fuel sources, and the benefits that they can inspire. Lastly, The Delegation of Italy promotes an international pollution tax, which fluctuates based on the GNP of a nation. Like the carbon taxes in Italy, these taxes would encourage more efficient energy use. Italy has done its best to work towards achieving the goal of limiting global climate change. We are dedicated to this issue because of the negative implications that it produces. Tourism is a huge contributor to our GNP, and the Delegation of Italy realizes the danger global climate change poses to international tourism. As the state of our nation deteriorates because of climate change, interest in traveling to Italy decreases, which poses a huge problem. This problem goes much further though. National economies, cultures, and resources are at stake, and we believe there is no reason the international community cannot work together to end this problem, and create a better world. http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE49K5WI20081021?pageNum ber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44306/story.htm http://www.iea.org/textbase/pm/?mode=cc&action=view&country=Italy http://www.feem.it/NR/rdonlyres/A04987D3-F5BE-46DA-AB14C55D5128B819/1256/10306.pdf pages 4- 8 http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/problems/global_warmin g/scientific_proof/ipcc_report/italy.cfm http://www.ipcc.ch/about/index.htm