Green travel
Green travelLufthansa's Green Fare is now the Impact Fare, after a German court ruled the old name misled passengers. The fare's mechanics stay the same — but its climate promises are now worded more tightly.
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Green travelSPTO's board advanced the Pacific Tourism Climate Change Action Plan in Honiara, with a first draft ahead and a regional launch planned for May 2027.
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Green travelEast African tourism ministers have adopted a ten-year strategy to market East Africa as a single, competitive destination, putting shared conservation, a future Single Tourist Visa and the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2027 at the centre of the region's green travel plans. The East Africa tourism strategy, covering 2027 to 2036, was adopted on
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Green travelMaldives sustainable destination bid: nominated for World's Leading Sustainable Destination 2026 at the WSTHA; voting closes 21 October 2026.
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Green travelArcher Aviation has completed a week of demonstration flights of its all-electric Midnight air taxi around the San Francisco Bay, showing how a car journey of more than an hour could become a quiet flight of about ten minutes with zero operating emissions. The flights, announced by the company on 19 October, mark another step
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Green travelSri Lanka's first electric air taxi has arrived in the country, and its maiden flight is planned at Colombo Port City before the end of October 2026. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL), the two-seat, pilotless electric aircraft will first take to the skies in a demonstration flight, with commercial tourist
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Green travelElectric ferries could reshape one of the world's busiest short-sea ferry networks: Türkiye's Sea of Marmara ferry fleet could cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 63 percent by 2050 by switching to a mix of hybrid and fully electric vessels, according to a new study by the International Maritime Organization. The assessment found no major
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Green travelCorporate buyers could become one of the most important funders of cleaner air travel by the end of this decade. A new study released on 14 October 2026 by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Airbus and Accenture estimates that corporate purchases of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) certificates could support between 1.0 and 1.9 million
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Green travelUttar Pradesh's Cabinet has approved a dedicated incentive package for sustainable aviation fuel production from farm waste and municipal refuse, with tiered units and a five-year policy window.
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Green travelNight trains are returning across Europe as a low-carbon alternative to short-haul flights. This awareness explainer looks at the official emissions figures, the sleeper rail revival, and what it means for climate-friendly travel.
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Green travelDubai Airports chief Paul Griffiths says long-range narrowbody jets will change the shape of travel, but warns aviation's climate transition hinges on scaling up sustainable aviation fuel production.
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Green travelA new cobalt-manganese catalyst from the Chinese Academy of Sciences turns wood waste into sustainable aviation fuel at a projected 55% profit margin — a breakthrough for greener flying.
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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
India has proposed allowing chemically recycled plastic in food packaging, as the EU prepares to ban plastic-waste exports to non-OECD countries from 21 November.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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