End poverty in all its forms everywhere
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Status of initiative: N/a
Description/achievement of initiative

DestiNet.eu is an independent portal which brings together the global community of people and organisations working for making tourism more sustainable. The portal leads you to helpful organisations and information sources, potential partners for exchange and collaboration, tools and good practice examples, sustainable tourism certification programmes and their certified products and services world wide.The Green Travel Maps on DestiNet bring destinations and certificates together, mapping eco-certified businesses and destinations, providing transparency on their green proofs, and supporting destinations in managing, monitoring and marketing their green offer. Pilot country is Germany. Interested destinations contact ECOTRANS.

Implementation methodologies

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Partner(s)

Ecotrans network members, Sustainable Tourism certification programmes, Destinations
Deliverables
03/2016
Green Travel Map Germany
Sustainable Development Goals and targets
Goal 8
8.4 - Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead
Goal 12
12.1 - Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.6 - Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.b - Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Goal 15
Goal 17
17.6 - Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
Resources devoted to implementation
Other, please specify
certification programmes, destinations and marketing partners pay an annual fee or give donations
Staff / Technical expertise
ECOTRANS experts and external experts are involved as administrators, trainers, researchers and consultants
In-kind contribution
ECOTRANS receives financial contribution from EU and national funding programmes
Progress reports
Cut off date each year: 1 July
SMART
This initiative fulfils the SMART criteria.
SDGs
Action Network
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Small Island Developing States
Information
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
Date of completion: 01/2030
Website
Operating in countries
Partner connections
Contact information/focal point(s)
Herbert Hamele, herbert.hamele@ecotrans.de

Documents
#SDGAction11304
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