MIAMI, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the
world's largest cruise company, today announced its initial set of
2030 sustainability goals, as part of the company's ongoing
commitment to sustainability and compliance throughout its global
operations.
Following the achievement of its 2020 sustainability goals,
Carnival Corporation has established new sustainability goals for
2030 and aspirations for 2050, incorporating six key focus areas
that specifically align with some of the United Nations'
Sustainable Development Goals. These areas include: climate action;
circular economy (waste reduction); sustainable tourism; health and
well-being; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); and biodiversity
and conservation.
Detailed below, Carnival Corporation is announcing several new
goals, targets and aspirations for 2030 and beyond for two of its
six focus areas that will guide its actions to further strengthen
its environmental, social and governance performance. Carnival
Corporation's sustainability commitments under the climate action
and circular economy focus areas include:
Climate Action:
- Achieve a 40% reduction in carbon rate per available lower
berth day by 2030, relative to a 2008 baseline.
- Confirmation that the company peaked its absolute carbon
emissions in 2011, despite an approximately 20% capacity increase
between 2011 and today with an additional 19% capacity increase on
order, and a commitment to continue to reduce emissions over time,
and identify a pathway to decarbonization.
- Expand its alternative fuels strategy across its liquefied
natural gas (LNG) program and battery, fuel cell and biofuel
capabilities.
- Deliver a 50% reduction in absolute air emissions of
particulate matter by 2030 relative to a 2015 baseline, despite an
over 10% capacity increase since 2015 and the additional 19%
capacity increase on order.
- Increase fleetwide shore power connection capability to at
least 60% of the fleet by 2030.
- Achieve net carbon neutral operations by 2050.
Circular Economy:
- Achieve 50% reduction in single-use plastic items by the end of
2021, relative to a 2018 baseline.
- Achieve 30% per capita food waste reduction by 2022 and 50% by
2030, relative to a 2019 baseline.
- Increase fleetwide coverage of Advanced Waste Water Treatment
Systems to at least 75% by 2030.
- Aspire to build zero emissions ships by 2050.
Carnival Corporation will detail additional 2030 sustainability
goals and 2050 aspirations covering all six of its focus areas in
its 2020 Sustainability Report to be issued later this summer.
"At Carnival Corporation, our highest responsibility and top
priorities are always compliance, environmental protection, and the
health, safety and well-being of our guests, the people in the
communities we touch and serve, and our shipboard and shoreside
personnel," said Arnold Donald, CEO
of Carnival Corporation. "The 2030 goals and our aspirations for
2050 are an important next step in our sustainability journey and
support our efforts to establish a path to zero emission cruising
over time."
Added Bill Burke, chief maritime
officer for Carnival Corporation: "Our new 2030 sustainability
goals demonstrate our ongoing commitment to ingraining
sustainability in all aspects of our operations across our nine
brands, while providing us clear, measurable targets and metrics to
improve our performance and overall efficiency across our shoreside
and shipboard operations."
The new set of 2030 sustainability targets and 2050 aspirations
build on the momentum of the company's performance relative to its
2020 sustainability goals, which were achieved and in some cases
surpassed in 2019, a full year ahead of schedule. As the company
continues to work toward the broad restart of guest cruise
operations, it is maintaining its focus on its environmental,
social and governance performance, including continued progress on
its sustainability efforts through the pause in guest cruise
operations.
As part of its strategic plan for carbon footprint reduction,
the company leads the cruise industry's use of LNG to power cruise
ships with a total of 11 next-generation cruise ships that will
have joined the fleet through 2025, which will represent nearly 20%
of its total capacity, including four ships already in operation.
The company also pioneered the use of Advanced Air Quality Systems
on board its ships and is promoting the use of shore power,
enabling ships to use shoreside electric power where available
while in port.
In addition, the company has implemented broad initiatives to
optimize onboard energy use, and innovative hull designs and
coatings to reduce fuel consumption by minimizing frictional drag,
along with trialing innovative technologies for generating power on
cruise ships, including battery power and fuel cells.
These efforts, along with a series of others underway, support
and strengthen Carnival Corporation's long-term commitment to
sustainability, responsible operations and protecting the
environment, as outlined in its 2030 sustainability goals and 2050
aspirations. Additional information on Carnival Corporation's
sustainability efforts is available at
www.carnivalsustainability.com.
Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future
Results
Some of the statements, estimates or projections
contained in this document are "forward-looking statements" that
involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions with respect to us,
including some statements concerning our 2030 sustainability
targets and 2050 aspirations. These statements are intended to
qualify for the safe harbors from liability provided by Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than
statements of historical facts are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking. These statements are based on current
expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our
business and the industry in which we operate and the beliefs and
assumptions of our management. We have tried, whenever possible, to
identify these statements by using words like "will," "may,"
"could," "should," "would," "believe," "depends," "expect," "goal,"
"anticipate," "forecast," "project," "future," "intend," "plan,"
"estimate," "target," "indicate," "outlook," and similar
expressions of future intent or the negative of such terms.
Because forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, there are many factors that could cause our actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. This
note contains important cautionary statements of the known factors
that we consider could materially affect the accuracy of our
forward-looking statements and adversely affect our 2030
sustainability targets and 2050 aspirations. Such risks,
uncertainties and factors include the risk factors discussed in
Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and
subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
Forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as a
prediction of actual results. Subject to any continuing obligations
under applicable law or any relevant stock exchange rules, we
expressly disclaim any obligation to disseminate, after the date of
this document, any updates or revisions to any such forward-looking
statements to reflect any change in expectations or events,
conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are
based.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival
Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel
companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise
lines sailing to all seven continents. With operations in
North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise
Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O
Cruises (Australia), Costa
Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com,
www.carnival.com, www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com,
www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com,
www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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