World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUN^x Malta launched a new pod­cast series designed to help tour­ism com­pan­ies and com­munit­ies stay on tar­get for the Par­is 1.5°C limit.

Announ­cing this on World Tour­ism Day, Septem­ber 27, SUN^x Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stake­hold­ers to take con­crete actions to respond to the Code Red Cli­mate Crisis and pub­licly stand behind them.”

He added: “We now have 100 com­pan­ies from 37 coun­tries who have signed up to our Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry. 

“[The regis­trants] are receiv­ing free cli­mate resi­li­ence ana­lys­is and free sup­port for their cli­mate and sus­tain­ab­il­ity plans. 

“We will show­case their ground-break­ing efforts through our weekly pod­casts, and hope­fully help oth­ers to engage in this trans­form­a­tion for our kids’ future.”

The pod­casts will be hos­ted by long-time industry “green advoc­ate” Ged Brown, Founder of Low Sea­son Trav­el­ler, and will start in Novem­ber to coin­cide with COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Click here to find out more about SUN^x Malta and Cli­mate Friendly Travel.

Podcast samples with guest Geoffrey Lipman

On why it matters

On host communities

On air­lines

About SUN^x Malta — Strong Universal Network

SUN^x Malta is a leg­acy for the late Maurice Strong, fath­er of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Its goal is to advance Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) ~ low car­bon : SDG linked : Par­is 1.5.

SUN^x has a core part­ner­ship with Malta’s Min­istry of Tour­ism & Con­sumer Pro­tec­tion and Malta Tour­ism Author­ity to advance CFT, to cre­ate a UNFC­CC-linked CFT Registry and to pro­mote CFT Edu­ca­tion. It plans to put in place 100,000 Strong Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons by 2030 across all UN States.