CARNIVAL Corporation has released its ninth annual sustainability report, outlining the key initiatives and progress made in 2018 toward its 2020 sustainability performance goals. The report, titled Sustainability From Ship to Shore (available HERE), comes following the Carnival’s recent involvement in a number of headlines surrounding environmental breaches, where the...
CARNIVAL Corporation has released its ninth annual sustainability report, outlining the key initiatives and progress made in 2018 toward its 2020 sustainability performance goals.
The report, titled Sustainability From Ship to Shore (available HERE), comes following the Carnival’s recent involvement in a number of headlines surrounding environmental breaches, where the cruise line admitted to dumping oil and waste (CW 05 Jun) and covering it up.
Carnival Corporation first shared its 2020 sustainability goals in 2015, identifying 10 key objectives including reducing its carbon footprint, improving ships’ air emissions, reducing waste generation, improving water use efficiency, and supporting guests, crew members as well as a range of local communities.
Despite being slammed for repeated environmental infringements, the report claims the cruise line remains “on track” to meeting these goals by 2020.
According to the report, Carnival achieved a 27.6% reduction in carbon emissions relative to 2015, with a goal to reach 25% by 2020, while waste reduction fell by 3.8% relative to 2016 figures.
Also outlined in the document was the cruise line’s introduction of Operation Oceans Alive, which launched in Jan 2018 “as a call to action for all employees to care about and protect our oceans, seas, and waterways from environmental harm”.
“We take our commitment to sustainability and the environment very seriously,” said Bill Burke, CMO for Carnival.
“It is a business imperative for each and every one of us to protect and preserve the oceans we sail and the communities we visit,” he added.
Pictured: Island Princess.
