Climate Hub

Welcome to Skift’s Climate Hub, where solutions-based journalism cuts through industry spin to spotlight real progress in travel sustainability. In partnership with Intrepid Travel, Skift’s editorial team will evaluate environmental claims, highlight meaningful advancements, and hold the travel sector accountable. This independent initiative brings rigorous reporting to the forefront and pushes the industry to meet the moment in the face of growing scrutiny from travelers and stakeholders alike.

Airlines

Trump May Again Pull Out of the Paris Climate Agreement: What Travel Businesses Say

If the world’s second largest polluter walks away from the Paris agreement, it would be a another blow to the global fight to reduce emissions.

Darin Graham | 3 weeks ago

Business Travel

Business Travel Emissions Climb at Big Banks Amid Net-Zero Pact Exodus

A rise in business travel emissions at major U.S. banks could show a lack of internal policies to address or offset staff air travel.

Darin Graham | 3 weeks ago

Airlines

Airlines Call on the EU to Delay Pollution Reporting Rules

The airline industry's push to delay pollution reporting rules could be seen as a delay tactic. But the EU should have the systems in place to support new reporting rules.

Darin Graham | 3 weeks ago

Hotels

Emissions from Hotels: The Gap Between Plans and Actions

Hotels have big plans to lower the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they generate. However, this report could show a gap between those plans and actual progress, especially when it comes to energy usage.

Darin Graham | 3 weeks ago

An image of Dubai with desert in the foreground.

Tourism

New UAE Law Requires Emissions Reporting: What Travel Businesses Need to Know

The new law could pave the way for stricter emission controls and kick off a government controlled carbon trading market.

Darin Graham | 4 weeks ago

Tourism

2024 Declared Hottest Year On Record and Travel Emissions Set to Rise

It’s a gloomy day for our planet and there are no signs of an emission slow down in the tourism sector. There are risks from the direct impacts of climate change on travel such as increasing storms, fires, floods and droughts.

Darin Graham | 4 weeks ago

Heathrow Airport, British Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

Airlines

UK Government Stands By Green Jet Fuel Law Amid Debate Over Who’ll Pay

The UK’s new mandate for sustainable aviation fuel aims to cut emissions but could raise flight prices. While environmentally ambitious, it faces debate over who will bear the extra costs.

Darin Graham | 4 weeks ago

Aerial view of three wind turbines in the early morning fog at sunrise in the English countryside.

Tourism

Skift’s Climate Hub: Solutions-Based Journalism That Holds the Industry to Account

Skift’s new Climate Hub will spotlight real advances in travel sustainability. By pairing solutions-based journalism with private backing from Intrepid Travel, this initiative will hold the industry accountable and separate genuine progress from hollow rhetoric.

Sarah Kopit | 4 weeks ago

An engineer standing on top of a wind turbine and looking beautiful landscape.

Tourism

After Overtourism: Pivoting from Traveler-Shaming to Systemic Solutions

Climate-conscious travel doesn’t mean giving up travel; it means evolving it. Climate tech has the same potential – its influence would go beyond incrementally greening individual choices, instead reshaping the entire operational system.

Rafat Ali | 2 months ago

Airlines

Is Sustainable Aviation Fuel the Solution or a Harmful Distraction?

Sustainable Aviation Fuel is being pushed as the main decarbonization pathway for the aviation industry. But a growing number of airline executives are pushing back on it as a waste of time when better solutions exist.

Robin Gilbert-Jones | 2 months ago