Carnival Corporation & PLC (Carnival) has released its 2014 Sustainability Report, detailing the progress the company has made towards meeting its 2020 sustainability goals across its 10 cruise lines.
Carnival originally set 10 goals to work towards reducing its environmental footprint over a period of five years.
According to the report, Carnival has reduced its CO2 emissions by 20%, one year ahead of its planned schedule, and has also announced plans to build four next-generation cruise ships that will be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to date.
They now plan to reduce their CO2 and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% by 2020 from its 2005 baseline and as part of the effort has developed strategic energy reduction and conservation initiatives, many of which exceed current laws and regulations.
Also, the company aims to deploy exhaust gas cleaning systems across its fleets in order to clean engine emissions of harmful sulphur oxides (SOx) and particulate matter, as well as improving the capacity for cold ironing for further reducing emissions.
Carnival donated US $2.5 million over a five year period to The Nature Conservancy, an American charitable environmental organisation, to advance the preservation of the world’s oceans and seas, for example, by accelerating coral reef restoration initiatives.
In November 2015 Carnival was identified as a leader for the quality of climate change-related information that it has disclosed to investors and other stakeholders.
Carnival’s Sustainability Reports can be accessed here.
