“Eco-responsibility serves as a common thread in all the actions implemented and in the daily operations of the Tourist Office.”
This sentence is taken from Article 2 of the multi-year agreement on objectives and means signed between the Doubs Horloger Regional Natural Park and the Tourist Office. It underlines the organization's deep conviction and voluntary commitment to conscious and sustainable tourism.
In 2019, the Tourist Office requested assistance from Préval Haut-Doubs, a public institution responsible for waste prevention and recovery, to carry out a diagnosis of its practices across all its offices. During a collective restitution, avenues for improvement were proposed and employees were able to benefit from a workshop on making some "homemade" household products. This collaboration continued in 2020 and 2021 with the implementation of awareness-raising workshops for tourism service providers.
Digital is not a virtual cloud floating in the atmosphere; it requires heavy infrastructure to function.
79% of the carbon impact of French digital technology is due to the manufacturing of terminals, network infrastructure, and data centers. The remaining 20% is split between distribution and digital use.
The idea isn't to stop our digital practices, but to make them more efficient. Nothing new or particularly original, just a collection of small actions to move toward greater digital sobriety.
In 2022, two themes were prioritized: email management and digital data storage.
In order to take charge and integrate these good practices in a sustainable way, the team took part in a small digital challenge inspired by the “ Digital Cleanup Day "The idea is to raise awareness of the environmental impact of digital technology by implementing awareness-raising actions for responsible, unifying, user-friendly digital technology that enable data cleansing.
In just a few hours, 87 kilobytes of data were deleted from mailboxes and the online server, a total equivalent of 852 kg CO123e (CO17,6 equivalent).
Thanks to the CO2e converter From ADEME, it is possible to obtain a comparison of the savings achieved. Here is what the team saved in 2022 thanks to the digital challenge:
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