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This UNGC report produced in consultation with over 300 stakeholders, identified five tipping points for a healthy and productive ocean that represent a set of tangible objectives to address ocean sustainability challenges.

This quick start guide provides an easy-to-follow action plan on carbon reduction and offsetting, with practical examples and tips for other tourism businesses to follow.

This bibliography includes a selection of some of the core texts in the field of creative tourism from previous years, and a review of the most recent publications on creative tourism.

These Queensland Government guidelines provide background information and tools and key considerations that must be addressed as a first step in achieving best practice for ecotourism in Queensland’s national parks. Featuring case studies from Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, Costa Rica, and Namibia.

This IUCN guide helps owners and managers of small and large hotels in the Caribbean to conserve nature through day-to-day hotel operations. This guide is meant to complement the many tools that are already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotels, by using appropriate siting, design and construction practices, and by improving management of energy and water consumption, and disposal of wastewater and solid wastes.

Deakin University’s Blue Carbon Lab offers innovative research solutions for helping to mitigate climate change and improve natural capital, while also contributing to jobs, economic growth, capacity building and community wellbeing. The Blue Carbon Labs’ in-house expertise spans ecology, biogeochemistry, microbiology, environmental economics, modeling and mapping/remote sensing.

This IUCN report highlights the importance of biodiversity in hotels, and provides principles to integrate biodiversity-friendly actions into the design of hotel and resort buildings and in their daily operations.

This CREST film presents the importance and practical steps to approach green travel for tourism businesses in the Caribbean.

This collaborative IUCN, WCPA, TAPAS Group, and GSTC webinar provides an overview of certification tools and standards for managing protected areas.

This WRI report makes the economic and security case for the development of resilient coastlines, and examines trade-offs between coastal protection and infrastructure development. The paper illustrates that practical solutions exist which can be implemented to allow economic and infrastructure development, without compromising the integrity and benefits of coastal ecosystems or disadvantaging the people who rely upon them.