TODAY’S Sustainability Matters is brought to you by Hurtigruten – World Environment Day: World Environment Day was created by the United Nations in 1974 to encourage awareness and action to protect the environment. This year’s theme is Time For Nature, and it’s a fitting topic. After months of confinement, we now have a better appreciation for the importance of nature to our physical and mental health. And as traffic and pollution has been reduced, we’ve enjoyed cleaner waterways and skies and witnessed the wonder of wildlife returning to our urban areas.
At Hurtigruten, we’ve always cared for the fragile environments where we explore and work. From abandoning heavy fuel oil more than a decade ago, to beach clean-ups, recycling, investment in innovative technologies such as hybrid powered ships, batteries and biofuels, and removing single-use plastics across our business, we strive to leave the smallest possible footprint.
As our industry plans for a return to travel, we need to learn from this break in business as usual and ask ourselves: How can we make meaningful change for a better planet our top priority?
World Environment Day is on Friday 5 June.
Damian Perry, Managing Director Hurtigruten APAC
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