It’s claimed Clare must aspire for greater carbon offsetting, after making it into the top 40 of the Global Destination Sustainability Index.
Clare stands at 38 in the index, which is the world’s leading sustainability benchmarking and performance improvement programme and sees the Banner take its place alongside the likes of Paris, Singapore, Copenhagen, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin and Helsinki.
An intensive audit of the county was carried out in which the county was assessed under 69 indicators across the areas of environmental performance, social progress performance, supplier performance and destination management performance.
General Manager of the Shannon Region Conference and Sports Bureau, Karen Ronan, says after this success, the next goal must be to find new ways to offset the carbon that’s consumed when people travel to this region.
You can listen to the full interview below.
