Transcript What we`ve already started - Nautisme Espace Atlantique

The Marine Leisure Industry:
leading the charge in going green
Watergate Bay Hotel, 10th November 2009
Jacqui Piper - CoaST
&
Katy Teare – Community Energy Plus
CoaST – a small, independent, not for private
profit organisation social enterprise founded 6
years ago.
Our job, to help ensure tourism becomes a
sustainable industry.
Since 2003 over 1,000 members.
One of the fastest growing networks of its kind
Community Energy Plus is a registered Charity and a
profit recycling company dedicated to reducing carbon
dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.
Our Aims:
•A sustainable reduction in domestic and small
business energy consumption
•The eradication of fuel poverty and associated
health problems
•The promotion of sustainable energy in new build and
renovation practices
Sustainable Tourism:
It is a process not
a type of tourism....
sustain – able”
means
“able to be sustained”
(that’s in terms of its impact on
people, the economy and the
environment)
…it’s about the triple bottom
line…
…making sure that
everything is working to
the benefit of the people,
the environment, and the
economy – or you will be
making money one way,
and losing it another.
Triple Bottom Line: Environment
81% of holiday trips to Cornwall
are motivated by conserved
landscape.
But 95% of the visits to AONB
nationally are made by car…
Regionally 40% of adults spend
time enjoying the water.
Increase in summer population
= more waste to deal with
Triple Bottom Line: Social
The Ethical
Consumerism
Report 2007,
The Cooperative
Bank.
76% of holiday consumers agree tourism should benefit local
people (ETC 2002)
8.5 million registered disabled people in the UK (with a spending
power of over £45b) unable to access much of Cornwall
Triple Bottom Line: Economy
Tourism is a big deal in Cornwall:
• 25% of our GDP
•
Employs one in five of our
population
•
Brings in £1.5billion per annum
Regionally locals spend more than £11 billion per
annum on sport and culture = 200,000 jobs supported
Water-based sport and recreation in Cornwall and the
Isles of Scilly is worth a massive £300 million per annum
How we help businesses
So, all the things we are asked for help
on...
Easy, inexpensive, but with a huge
impact.
Kit, communications and engagement.
NEA 2 – Environmental Strand
Outputs
•9
Marine Champions
•Trial 10 Energy Resilience Assessments
•3 Business Cluster Events
•Marine Visitor Charter
•Adapt existing resources for businesses in Cornwall
•Greener Events Guide
•3 Beach Cleans
•Working with partners to adapt the existing Resource
Efficiency Analysis Programme
The way we are going
to do this
To name just a few.....
•The Green Blue
•Cornwall Council
•Environment Agency
•Blue Gym
•South West Tourism
•Visit Cornwall
•NGO’s
•European Partners
•Marine Leisure Businesses
What we’ve already started –
Looking at the Tourism Footprint of
Cornwall
CoaST have been working with SW
Tourism and the Stockholm Environment
Institute to develop Resource Efficiency
Analysis Programme (REAP) Tourism.
CoaST is working closely with Cornwall
Council to use REAP and REAP Tourism
to model a range of scenarios.
REAP Tourism is being adapted for use
to understand the footprint of the
marine leisure sector.
What we’ve already started –
1 Marine Visitor Charter
What we’ve already started –
2 Marine Champions
Thank you!
CoaST: Tel 01872 562 057
[email protected]
www.coastproject.co.uk