The Whitsunday Regional Council initiative Whitsunday Healthy Heart Project has attracted 45 businesses from the tourism sector to take part in the project.
The project has welcomed a wide range of tourism businesses, including marine operators, island resorts, accommodations, restaurants and bars, tours, and ceremony providers.
Mayor Julie Hall said the project is providing important tools to tourism-based business to assist in reducing their environmental impacts on our region.
“Low carbon emissions are essential to building resilience in the tourism sector and the project is helping businesses tackle the important first step to measure their carbon footprint,” she said.
“The Whitsunday Healthy Heart Project provides complementary access to the EarthCheck energy and carbon calculator which is based on internationally accepted methodologies.
“Full training is provided on the calculator and business owners are usually surprised at how easy the data entry is.”
Great Barrier Reef Foundation Strategic Initiatives Director Melissa Rodgers said climate change is the greatest threat to our Reef and emissions reduction is an important action we can take to secure its future.
“It’s heartening to see so many local businesses getting on board by working towards a carbon neutral Reef industry in the Whitsundays as part of our Reef Islands Initiative,” Ms Rodgers said.
One of the initiatives aims to support the decarbonization of tourism by providing an innovative and easy-to-use online carbon calculator for businesses to measure their operational emissions from energy, water, and waste.
New businesses join initiative to decarbonize the Reef, seeing a growth of over 40 tourism business. Photo supplied
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