Industry must work together on emissions and ‘compare apples with apples’ – Intrepid

Hazel McGuire, Intrepid Travel’s general manager UK and Ireland, believes there needs to be more alignment among businesses and other operators on how emissions are recorded to strengthen their industry’s response to the climate crisis and ensure apples are being compared with other apples.

 

Speaking at the Association of National Tourist Offices and Representatives’ (Antor) annual review this week, McGuire said businesses needed to measure their carbon footprint throughout their supply chains, but decried regulations she said that can often be at adds with one another depending on where a company is registered.

 

"For many companies ,there are a number of EU regulations that will come in place this year,” she said. “And the UK is looking at something completely different.”

 

To report their emissions, UK businesses need to adopt the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) policy, which asks large companies to report their underlying global energy use and energy efficiency actions, among other things.

 

Businesses registered in Europe, meanwhile, need to abide by the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).