SUNx Malta

SUNx Malta has been a val­ued “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner since July 2020. This is an archive page for SUNx’ “GT” Part­ner messages.

SUNx MaltaSUNx Malta for Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) — SUN (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) — is a leg­acy for the late Maurice Strong, fath­er of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Its goal is to advance Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) ~ Par­is 1.5 and SDG linked.

SUNx has a core part­ner­ship with Malta’s Min­istry of Tour­ism 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 across all UN States by 2030.

2025 ‘critical’ for tourism climate action: SUNx unveils ‘Baku Declaration’ action plan

January 20, 2025

2025 is a critical year for climate action, and SUNx Malta is intensifying efforts to build a stronger, more resilient global network for Climate Friendly Travel (CFT)

2025 is a crit­ic­al year for cli­mate action, and SUNx Malta is intensi­fy­ing efforts to build a stronger, more resi­li­ent glob­al net­work for Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT). With the Baku Declar­a­tion call­ing for accel­er­ated trans­form­a­tion in the tour­ism sec­tor, we are scal­ing up our impact: … and pub­lish­ing our new-look eXist news­let­ter. Here is a page […]

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SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support creation of tourism climate action plans

December 17, 2024

SUNx, Murmuration partnership to support tourism climate action plans. Satellite image Wikiimages (CC0) via Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/photos/map-land-egypt-geography-11043/

SUNx (Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work) and Mur­mur­a­tion have com­bined forces to sup­port tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and busi­nesses in rap­idly cre­at­ing cli­mate action plans. This is an imme­di­ate response to the Baku Tour­ism Declar­a­tion. Murmuration’s power­ful cli­mate risk mod­el­ling tech­no­logy and SUNx Cli­mate Friendly Travel Ser­vices’ AI solu­tions will deliv­er high qual­ity, data led, cli­mate action plans at […]

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SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

September 27, 2024

SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

On this World Tour­ism Day, SUNx Malta is delighted to announce the expan­sion of our Edu­ca­tion 4 Action pro­gram, pla­cing a spe­cial focus on the future lead­ers of tomor­row: our chil­dren, the ones who will have to deal with an inev­it­ably worsen­ing exist­en­tial cli­mate crisis. Cent­ral to this expan­sion is ‘Dodo 4 Kids’, which is designed […]

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50 diploma scholarships open to students from SIDS, LDCs

July 31, 2024

2024 Climate Friendly Travel Diploma 50 scholarships for students in SIDS, LDCs and other developing states

Fifty schol­ar­ships are open to stu­dents from Least Developed Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States (SIDS), and a few oth­er devel­op­ing coun­tries, for the online Dip­loma in Cli­mate Friendly Travel offered by the Insti­tute of Tour­ism Stud­ies and SUNx Malta. The 2024 CFT Dip­loma starts on Septem­ber 30. Schol­ar­ship applic­a­tions close August 15.  APPLY HERE […]

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Tourism climate action now for small island developing states: SUNx Malta

May 29, 2024

Tourism climate action now for small island developing states: SUNx Malta. Antigua port image by neufal54 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/caribbean-antigua-port-ship-sea-2585115/

The cli­mate crisis is most chal­len­ging and imme­di­ate for small island devel­op­ing states, which have con­trib­uted the least to the prob­lem but are the most exposed to its con­sequences.  This is accord­ing to Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx Malta, who key­noted a ses­sion on cli­mate change and tour­ism at the United Nations’ Small Island Devel­op­ing States […]

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SUNx, CFT Uganda Chapter urge tourism climate action and adaptation in Kampala

May 24, 2024

SUNx, CFT Uganda Chapter urge tourism climate action and adaptation in Kampala Crested crane image by Paul (CC0) via Pixabay. Uganda map-shaped flag by Gordan Johnson (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-crested-crane-crane-uganda-7718653/ https://pixabay.com/vectors/uganda-flag-map-geography-outline-1758988/

SUNx Malta and its Uganda Chapter are high­light­ing the imper­at­ive for cli­mate action in tour­ism, par­tic­u­larly the need to adapt to intensi­fy­ing weath­er extremes, at the Pearl of Africa Tour­ism Expo (POATE) 2024 tak­ing place in Kam­pala, Uganda. Find SUNx at POATE, Maleng Travel Stand T9 Mun­yonyo Con­ven­tion Centre. 100 cli­mate-friendly Ugandan tour­ism stake­hold­ers Uganda has […]

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