Impact of Policy in Regulating Climate Change Contributed by Tourism

Running head: TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Tourism and climate change
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1TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Background
The aim of the essay is to analyze the impact of policy in regulating climate change
contributed by tourism. This essay will be highlighting the issue of one of the existing policy
instrument that is contributing in making changes of the reduction of climate change threats. One
of the primary threats to the climatic conditions of Canada are the large number of waste
generated (Čavlek et al., 2019. Plastic pollution and has been one of the primary factors that
Canada is fighting to reduce to a great extent. It has been argued that large amount of waste is
generated every year due to the activity of the primary contributor of the international tourist and
this has led to the government taking multiple steps in this regard. The Trudeau government has
launched multiple policies to deal with the issue of low generation of waste with zero use of
plastic for protecting the environmental health (Let's Talk Transportation, 2019). One of the
crucial factors contributing to the climate change in Canada is plastic pollution which is a result
of the large amount of plastic uses by the tourists. Hence it is imperative to consider some of the
steps taken by the government of Canada to mitigate the threat of climate change due to plastic
pollution.
Policy instrument
In this regard, the government has taken up the certain commitments to deal with the
marine pollution. In 2015; the Canadian government signed an international commitment in the
U.N sustained Development Goals (Canada, 2019). Domestically it has taken up the pledge to
mitigate the harmful impact of plastic in the Canadian beaches and coastal areas. Moreover in
2016, the Trudeau government has launched the new initiative by the name Ocean protection