(TAN): United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is joining forces with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to promote sustainable tourism, accelerate the transfer of climate finance and make green technologies more accessible for the tourism sector through the bank’s online shopping-style platform Green Technology Selector.
With the objective of advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, UNWTO supports the EBRD’s Green Technology Selector, which can complement existing UNWTO’s online resource efficiency tools such Hotel Energy Solutions (HES) or the Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH). The EBRD’s Green Technology Selector is an online shopping-style platform that lists technologies from manufacturers around the world.
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The hospitality industry and businesses servicing the tourism sector are able to access the Green Technology Selector to find more than 26,000 green technologies that benefit from EBRD support –from the EBRD’s Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF), the Green Trade Facilitation Programme (Green TFP) and the Finance and Technology Transfer Centre for Climate Change programme (FINTECC).
Possible investments will improve energy efficiency, provide renewable energy and reduce water and resource use. They can include energy-efficient windows and doors, thermal insulation, lighting, construction equipment and machinery, photovoltaic solar panels and geothermal heat pumps.
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Vlaho Kojakovic, EBRD Director, Property & Tourism said: “Buildings account for approximately 40% of the global energy use. This estimate can be even higher for the hospitality sector, which offers great potential for boosting resource and energy efficiency, and reducing its carbon footprint…we believe that the EBRD’s Green Technology Selector will help deliver a more energy efficient tourism sector in the years to come.”
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