Climate Conscious Travel

Storytelling | Research | Education

Climate storytelling through the lens of travel

Climate Conscious Travel is an impact storytelling initiative that uses travel as a means to create awareness about the changing realities of our planet. Our multimedia storytelling efforts seek to create wonder and respect for the world, while inspiring action to protect it. By spotlighting community resilience and regenerative practices, we aim to shift the doomsday climate narrative into one that builds hope and a sense of agency.

Featured Projects

  • community tourism documentaries

    Documentaries that spotlight community resilience and local voices

    Award-winning documentaries and micro films on Indigenous and women-led enterprises in the Himalayas and Andes

  • climate newsletter, climate substack

    Newsletter on travel and life on a changing planet

    A monthly Substack newsletter that highlights grassroots climate initiatives and inspires conscious travel - delivered to 14,000+ subscribers monthly.

  • sustainable cities

    A platform to inspire meaningful tourism in the world's most exciting cities

    A collaborative project to (re)discover cities around the world, through the ideas and lens of those who call them home

  • community storytelling

    Community-led storytelling to preserve local knowledge

    A collaboration to empower tourism-dependent communities to tell their own stories, in their own voices

  • travel influencer courses

    Self-paced courses for purpose-driven storytellers

    Empowering writers, creators and influencers to learn the art of impactful travel and sustainability storytelling

  • travel writing workshops

    Pay-as-you-like conscious travel writing workshops

    In-person workshops at a Buddhist Institute to gently draw us back to the essence of travel and reflection, in the age of climate change and ‘othering’

Featured Insights

Why Every Tourism Business and Destination Needs a Climate Action Plan

As an industry, tourism relies heavily on and benefits greatly from natural ecosystems and local communities. It is high time destinations and businesses do more to protect both – and ensure their own survival.

Are ‘Community Based Offsets’ an Interim Solution for Tourism’s Carbon Problem?

Community based travel offsets could offer tangible benefits for local communities, create opportunities to engage travellers on climate action, and enable monitoring through the local presence of the business.

Climate Conscious Travel aspires to support the following UN SDGs:

We are a signatory of:

Collaborators

Himalayan ecotourism

Get in touch

To discuss your storytelling journey or collaborate on a climate storytelling project, get in touch at: shivya@climateconscioustravel.com