Carnival Company pronounces vital sustainability achievements

MIAMI – Carnival Company & plc launched its 14th annual sustainability report detailing significant progress in its six sustainability focus areas, together with towards its highest-priority targets supporting local weather motion to scale back greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions and selling a round financial system mannequin to scale back waste. The corporate achieved a number of 2030 environmental targets effectively upfront and is monitoring forward of schedule on numerous different key targets, together with GHG depth reductions.

“Because of our 160,000 exceptional crew members who present up each day with ardour and dedication, 2023 was a 12 months of serious accomplishments throughout the board,” stated Josh Weinstein, CEO and chief local weather officer for Carnival Company. “We achieved record-breaking monetary efficiency, welcomed three beautiful new ships, expanded our international presence to over 800 unbelievable locations and communities, and delivered unforgettable happiness to 12.5 million friends by offering them with extraordinary cruise holidays.”

Added Weinstein: “We additionally demonstrated our continued dedication to main the way in which in making cruising extra sustainable, marked by wonderful progress towards reaching – and in lots of circumstances, exceeding – our important 2030 environmental efficiency targets. Since we’re so aggressively monitoring towards all our 2030 sustainability targets, we’re evaluating new interim targets alongside our pursuit of web zero GHG emissions by 2050.”

Carnival Company Achieves Key 2030 Targets in Advance

As outlined within the 2023 Sustainability Report, Carnival Company has reached a number of key 2030 environmental efficiency targets years forward of time in its local weather motion and round financial system focus areas – main priorities within the firm’s sustainability roadmap. For instance, by means of decisive and longstanding local weather motion, the corporate is producing 10+% much less absolute GHG emissions at the moment than in 2011, its peak historic 12 months, regardless of rising capability by roughly 30% since that point. Moreover, reinforcing a round financial system mannequin has led to vital reductions within the quantity and affect of waste produced general. Highlights from the corporate’s 2023 report embody:

• GHG Depth: Monitoring towards its 2030 purpose 4 years forward of schedule, the corporate formally dedicated to decreasing its GHG depth by not less than 20% by 2026 (versus 2019 ranges; measured on a decrease berth capability foundation). The corporate expects this efficiency to place it forward of the Worldwide Maritime Group’s (IMO) 2030 carbon depth discount timeline.
• Shore Energy: Surpassing its 2030 purpose in 2023 – seven years early – the corporate now leads the business with 64% of its fleet shore power-capable, which means it has twice as many ships capable of “plug in” than there are ports outfitted to offer shore energy. The corporate is now working carefully with port authorities worldwide to foster elevated adoption of this necessary expertise.
• Particulate Matter: Recording a 68% discount in absolute particulate matter emissions (versus the 2015 baseline), the corporate continued accelerating effectively past its 2030 purpose to scale back particulate matter emissions by 50%.
• Meals Waste: Reaching a 38% discount in meals waste per particular person (versus the 2019 baseline), the corporate got here inside two proportion factors of reaching its 2025 purpose to scale back meals waste by 40% and continues efforts towards attaining its 50% meals discount purpose by 2030.
• Single-Use Gadgets: As of 2023, the corporate had reduce down enormously on single-use gadgets and plastics, eliminating ~500 million single-use gadgets from the fleet by the tip of final 12 months (in comparison with 2018) – outpacing its 2030 50% discount purpose, which it initially surpassed in 2021, 9 years early.
• Superior Waste Water Therapy Programs: Ending the 12 months only a few factors shy of its 2030 purpose to outfit 75% of its fleet capability with AWWTS, in 2023, the corporate had accomplished set up of techniques protecting 70% of the corporate’s fleet capability, purifying much more water used onboard to municipal-water high quality earlier than releasing it again to nature.

On prime of those highlights, Carnival Company is marching strongly towards assembly or exceeding its remaining 2030 local weather motion and round financial system targets. Vital updates on the corporate’s liquefied pure fuel (LNG) program, in addition to its Superior Air High quality Programs (AAQS), Air Lubrication Programs (ALS), and biofuels initiatives, and extra, can be found within the full report.

As well as, the corporate can also be dedicated to inclusivity throughout its various international crew of 160,000 robust, and fostering a optimistic office atmosphere for all workers. As a part of its sustainability technique, it’s also targeted on selling sustainable tourism and creating shared worth, mutual progress and goodwill with its vacation spot companions and the native communities it visits, as outlined within the report.

Carnival Company’s 2023 sustainability report was developed in accordance with the World Reporting Initiative (GRI) Common Customary 2021 and incorporates the corporate’s third annual disclosure in keeping with the Sustainability Accounting Requirements Board (SASB) and the Process Pressure on Local weather-Associated Monetary Disclosures (TCFD).