New Delhi: Research published in the journal Nature Communications on Sunday suggested that 60 per cent of the growth in the world’s total tourism emissions was contributed by the United States, China and India together. The growth is calculated during the ten years of 2009 to 2019, as suggested by a report by The Conversation.
As per the report, three-quarters of total global tourism emissions are produced by just 20 countries, while the remaining 25 per cent is by 155. There is now a hundred-fold difference in per-capita tourism footprints between countries which travel most and those which travel least, the report said.
The US, which is among the top 20 tourism emitters, released the largest amount of nearly one gigatonne in 2019….
