Climate Friendly Travel
As the Registrar of the climate friendly travel registry, I am advocating that the tourism industry makes plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, in line with all Nationally Determined…
As the Registrar of the climate friendly travel registry, I am advocating that the tourism industry makes plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, in line with all Nationally Determined…
When I worked in Thailand from 1999 to 2004, we lived in Turtle House on Soi Prommitr in the Sukhumvit area of central Bangkok. Turtle house got its name from…
I read an interesting story by Laura Cole in the latest issue of Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society in London. The story focused on sand mining. Maybe…
A climate resilient society has the capacity to deal with the effects of climate change, while responding to these changes with new approaches. The use of bamboo is one of…
Last week, I was part of the inaugural SUNx Malta 2020 Climate Friendly Travel and Tourism Think Tank with 35 global thought leaders from the travel and tourism sector. We…
I just attended the first Ibero Bamboo Symposium in Madrid , where I talked about bamboo in Europe. Planning for the symposium started in 2018, when I was the Director-General…
The United Nations Climate Action Summit has given a real boost to the recognition that nature can help us reach some of the Sustainable Development Goals (https://www.unenvironment.org/nbs-contributions-platform). There are some…
For the past five years, I was the head of the Secretariat of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (www.inbar.int) in Beijing, PR China. I stepped down in April this…
During the 20th Anniversary of INBAR, the Foreign Languages Press from China published the “100 Heroes of China’s Bamboo Industry”. The book is a snapshot of “who-is-who” in the bamboo…
INBAR was part of the 2017 Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference (G-STIC), and we were again invited to attend this year. Unlike last year, when we arranged a whole…
