INSTITUTE OF TRAVEL MANAGEMENT

That this House welcomes the ICARUS environmental accreditation scheme to achieve absolute reductions in carbon emissions throughout the travel buying industry; acknowledges its ambitious targets to reduce the carbon output of the travel buying sector by at least 60 per cent. by 2050 in line with the Climate Change Bill; recognises the importance of the cut, reduce, offset framework to prioritise cutting unnecessary travel, reducing emissions by switching to greener travel alternatives and only offsetting carbon emissions as a last resort; and congratulates the responsible leadership of the Institute of Travel Management in helping to drive down carbon emissions from the UK's travel buying sector.