Climate Roadmap for Berlin Tourism
Why a climate roadmap?
Tourism companies have the potential to actively influence climate change and mitigate its consequences. With their reach and innovative strength, they can provide decisive impetus to drive forward sustainable solutions and positively shape the future of the industry. However, the current references to tourism in the BEK (Berlin Energy & Climate Protection Programme) are not sufficient to provide companies in the tourism and MICE industry with guidance on which measures are most effective.
We need a clear goal and a plan for strategic and holistic climate management, which is why the Berlin Senate is funding visitBerlin to develop a climate roadmap for Berlin tourism and the MICE industry in a participatory process by the end of 2025.
The climate roadmap will serve as a strategic guide for the tourism and event industry, provide orientation for companies and show concrete ways in which the industry can contribute to Berlin's climate neutrality by 2045.
visitBerlin is supported in this project by:
BTE Tourismus- und Regionalberatung
ZENAT - Centre for Sustainable Tourism
Professor Dr Stefan Gössling, climate change and tourism expert
Key elements of the project
The climate roadmap will be based on a comprehensive analysis of the emissions currently caused by Berlin tourism and MICE activities, taking into account all aspects of the tourism and event business.
We take a close look at everything from travel and accommodation to on-site activities and event planning and identify potential for CO2 reduction and optimisation. The aim is to increase the positive effects of tourism, reduce the negative ones and at the same time prepare the industry for changes in climatic conditions.
Key components of the climate roadmap:
- Assessment of current emissions from Berlin tourism and the MICE industry
- Analysing the need for action and strategies for climate-resilient development in Berlin tourism
- Concretisation of necessary climate protection measures
- Implementation of measures, monitoring and continuous adaptation of measures
How can my company participate?
The first stakeholder workshop on the climate roadmap took place in May 2025. After various climate protection scenarios were outlined in this workshop and initial sector-specific requirements for the climate roadmap were outlined in sector-specific breakout sessions, the project is now entering the detailed phase.
Important: Various stakeholders from Berlin's visitor economy can still get involved in this phase, even if they did not take part in the previous workshop. We need your experience to actively develop industry-specific, realistic climate protection and climate adaptation measures!
Because we don't just want to deal with the topic superficially, the upcoming workshops will focus on the needs of your sector for half a day.
Save the Date:
3. September | Accommodation
4. September | Gastronomy
10. September | MICE & Events (focus: logistics)
11. September | Culture / Indoor (Focus: Location)
17. September | Leisure / Outdoor
18. September | Water Tourism
All workshops will take place from 9:00 to 13:00 and roughly follow this schedule:
- Welcome and introduction
- Examination of the climate impact on the respective industry
- Review of the relevance assessment of climate impacts
- Development of measures and identification of support needs for climate adaptation
- Presentation of the results in plenary
- Presentation of the results of the climate assessment for Berlin tourism
- Development of measures and support requirements for climate protection
- Presentation of the results in plenary
- Summary and next steps
Benefits of your participation
- You are helping to shape the overarching climate target for Berlin tourism and the MICE industry!
- As innovators in Berlin's tourism and MICE industry, you can make a significant contribution to creating viable solutions for the future.
- You will be part of the comprehensive communication with which visitBerlin accompanies the project.
- If you have not yet completed a carbon footprint for your organisation, you can gain valuable knowledge from working on the project.
- If you are already recording CO2 emissions for your business activities, make sure that your efforts to date are included in the overarching strategy for Berlin.
