Climate Friendly Travel Registry gains 200 from Thompson Okanagan, Canada

Mes­sage from Dr Hans Friederich, regis­trar of the SUN^x Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry. SUN^x is a “GT” Part­ner.

Dur­ing the Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA) Sum­mit, the news was shared that 200 tour­ism SMEs from this Cana­dian Region will register their car­bon reduc­tion and sus­tain­ab­il­ity ambi­tions on the SUN^x Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) Registry.

SUNx Malta is a not-for-profit EU-based Organ­iz­a­tion sup­por­ted by the Gov­ern­ment of Malta and inspired by Maurice Strong, fath­er of Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment. We have cre­ated a CFT Registry as a res­ult of our first State of the Sec­tor Report under­taken with the World Travel and Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC), to help Travel and Tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies devel­op and show their Cli­mate 2050 and Sus­tain­ab­il­ity 2030 Ambi­tions. The Registry was developed in close cooper­a­tion with the UN Cli­mate Change Agency and as the con­duit for our sec­tor to the UN Cli­mate Action Portal. This down­load gives you more inform­a­tion about the Registry.

In addi­tion to the excit­ing news from Canada, we are work­ing closely with WTTC to strengthen the Registry and its links with the UN Cli­mate Change Agency. We are also in con­tact with the European Travel Com­mis­sion and they have expressed sup­port in get­ting tour­ism com­pan­ies in Europe to join. Some oth­er com­pan­ies, like Chumbe Island Cor­al Park and Pan­or­amic Jour­neys have joined already.

I am the Regis­trar and I am invit­ing rel­ev­ant parties to record their plans on the Registry. Regis­tra­tion will cre­ate little extra work. You just need to com­mit to the core prin­ciples of CFT to com­plete part A. Part B is a little more com­plic­ated, but if you do not have the data yet, you have up to two years to devel­op your 2050 Cli­mate plan. The Registry will give you access to tools and resources to devel­op Cli­mate plans, and that will be import­ant for the future as a license to oper­ate. The Registry can of course be used for pro­mo­tion and it may help to attract more visitors.

I hope that you will all agree to have your car­bon reduc­tion and sus­tain­ab­il­ity plans registered. Let me know if you want more inform­a­tion. My email is hans@thesunprogram.com, or hansfr55@gmail.com.

A word from Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of SUN^x Malta:

The Registry is a pivotal com­pon­ent of our Cli­mate Friendly Travel Sys­tem (see dia­gram below), along with the Dip­loma we launched earli­er this year and the Annu­al Maurice Strong CFT Youth Sum­mit, which will have its first world­wide ses­sion with Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (Canada), Malta, and the Mekong Tour­ism Coordin­at­ing Office on 29 April 2021. 

We can­not stress enough that the post-pan­dem­ic recov­ery must build a green and clean path­way for com­ing gen­er­a­tions. By regis­ter­ing cli­mate and sus­tain­ab­il­ity plans all Travel and Tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies — no mat­ter the size or type will be able to trans­par­ently show actu­al action taken, as well as pledges/aspirations, and have it form­ally linked to the main­stream UN 2030 SDG and 2050 Par­is 1.5 frame­work. They will also become pion­eers in our 100,000 Strong Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons Pro­gram, across all UN States by 2030. 

The Cli­mate Crisis has only intens­i­fied dur­ing COVID-19 and as UN Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al Guterres recently declared the tour­ism recov­ery must be “cli­mate friendly” and build back bet­ter for soci­ety as a whole.

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• This down­load gives you more inform­a­tion about the SUN^x Registry. (PDF hos­ted off-site)

Fea­tured image (top of post): Lake Kelowna, Okanagan, BC, Canada. Image (CC0) via Need­pix.