{"id":128133,"date":"2019-07-02T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=128133"},"modified":"2019-07-03T02:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:51:48","slug":"environmental-roadmap-sets-guidelines-for-sustainable-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/environmental-roadmap-sets-guidelines-for-sustainable-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental roadmap sets guidelines for sustainable tourism sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Punta-Rucia-MITUR-UN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Punta-Rucia-MITUR-UN.jpg 840w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Punta-Rucia-MITUR-UN-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Punta-Rucia-MITUR-UN-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic seeks to show leadership in protecting the natural beauty that it relies on to be the leading Caribbean tourism destination. On 1 July 2019, the country together with the United Nations launched the Roadmap to the general public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Roadmap for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in the Dominican Republic was first presented in May 2019 during a meeting attended by 75 representatives from the tourism sector in Punta Cana. The country seeks to play its part to minimize the impacts of climate change and pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roadmap provides context, highlights key issues to be addressed, sets goals and targets, identifies a range of solutions and actions and maps the stakeholders that need to come together to help to deliver them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vision for the 18-month roadmap is for an environmentally sustainable, resilient and competitive accommodation subsector in the Dominican Republic that will become globally recognized as a guardian of the country&#8217;s natural and cultural diversity, supported by the hospitality of its people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roadmap sets five targets for the accommodation sector in the Dominican Republic: to reduce by 25% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (from a 2020 baseline), reduce food waste by half, a 25% of reduction in non-renewable energy use, the complete elimination of single-use plastics and the uptake of a sustainability certification for hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This roadmap would not have been possible without strong cooperation between the public and the private sector,&#8221; says Olga Rosario, director of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Department in the Ministry of Environment. &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time they have collaborated to establish clear targets to achieve sustainable development for the tourism sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/dominican-republic-embraces-sustainable-tourism\">UN Environment<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneplanetnetwork.org\/country-roadmaps\">One Planet Network<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneplanetnetwork.org\/sites\/default\/files\/roadmap_dominican_republic_1.pdf\">One Planet Network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic seeks to show leadership in protecting the natural beauty that it relies on to be the leading Caribbean tourism destination. On 1 July 2019, the country together with the United Nations launched the Roadmap to the general public. The Roadmap for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in the Dominican Republic was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/environmental-roadmap-sets-guidelines-for-sustainable-tourism-sector\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128144,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133\/revisions\/128144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}