PROJECTS
Current and Past Projects
Reducing the carbon footprint of a tourism enterprise in Asia
Client: Vegan Travel Asia
Location: Thailand, Cambodia and India
Climate Conscious Travel worked with Vegan Travel Asia, an award-winning responsible tour operator, to evaluate the carbon footprint of three of their trips across South & Southeast Asia. A strategy was formulated to reduce the emissions of each trip, incorporate climate awareness into the itinerary, design carbon removal projects beneficial to local communities, and engage travellers in the carbon removal project during the trip.
Co-authoring a Sustainability Report for a global luxury hotel group
Client: Mandarin Oriental
Partner: Bouteco
Location: Global
Boutique consultancy Bouteco engaged Shivya Nath to co-author luxury hotel group Mandarin Oriental’s Sustainability Report 2023. From transparency and imagery to a greener format and greater accessibility (through an audio recording of the highlights), this report tries to challenge impact reporting in luxury hospitality in many ways.
Pioneering community-led storytelling in India, with a focus on climate change
Partners: Digital Empowerment Foundation & Himalayan Ark
Location: India
In collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation and Himalayan Ark, Climate Conscious Travel developed India’s first community storytelling platform - Voices of Rural India. We work with storytellers from tourism-dependent rural communities on the art of digital storytelling, and empower them to share stories of climate change, sustainability, natural heritage and cultural traditions, in their own voices.
Building a global platform to inspire sustainable travel in the world’s most exciting cities
Partner: iambassador
Location: Global
Climate Conscious Travel has partnered with boutique digital marketing agency, iambassador, to build Sustainable Cities, a global platform that invites travellers to (re)discover their favorite cities around the world, through a conscious lens. The platform aims to bridge the gap between intention and action, by conscious choices more accessible to travellers. If you’re a DMO interested in joining this project, please contact info@sustainablecities.travel
Developing a Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reduction Plan for an upscale hotel in Spain
Client: Los Jameos Playa
Location: Canary Islands, Spain
Los Jameos Playa is currently pursuing the Travellife certification, and engaged Climate Conscious Travel to develop a GHG Inventory and Reduction Plan with a view to measuring and reducing their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, and partial Scope 3 (value chain) emissions. The plan was based on the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, and accounted for CO2, CH4, N20, HFCs, PFCs, NF3 and SF6 – the six greenhouse gases included in the Kyoto Protocol. Prioritized reduction strategies were recommended, along with an absolute reduction target from a 2019 baseline year. This project was executed as an academic project, as part of a master’s program at Harvard University.