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.

FINAL CALL for entries: Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter

March 14, 2024

Strong Earth Awards 2024

March 31, 2024 is the dead­line for the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  Entrants are invited to sub­mit a thought-pro­­vok­ing 500-word essay on:  “Why is the Earth Charter more rel­ev­ant today than when it was intro­duced by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev in 2005; espe­cially for tour­ism in Least Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (LDCs) and Small Island Devel­op­ing States […]

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Support small islands: Register now for 4th Annual SEYS (Strong Earth Youth Summit)

February 20, 2024

SUNx Malta Strong Earth Youth Summit SEYS 2024 promotion

Young people in tour­ism, and their ment­ors and sup­port­ers, are invited right now to register for the 2024 edi­tion of the Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS). The Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit (SEYS) is an annu­al trib­ute to Maurice Strong, cli­mate act­iv­ist for over 50 years and Sec­ret­ary Gen­er­al of the first “Earth Sum­mit” in 1972 […]

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‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do

and February 9, 2024

‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do. Image by Markus Spiske (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathered-outside-buildings-holding-climate-justice-now-signage-dYZumbs8f_E

There is increas­ing chat­ter on social media about the need for ‘Cli­mate Justice’. At its core, Cli­mate Justice is ensur­ing a very strong meas­ure of pro­tec­tion for those who did the least to cre­ate the ‘Code Red Cli­mate Crisis’, and who are likely to be the most to suf­fer from cli­mate change, and who are […]

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Launching the Strong Earth Awards 2024, Advancing the Earth Charter

February 3, 2024

Strong Earth Awards 2024

SUNx Malta and Les Roches, togeth­er with The Earth Charter Insti­tute, the China Biod­iversity Con­ser­va­tion and Green Devel­op­ment Found­a­tion (CBCGDF), and the European Centre for Peace and Devel­op­ment (ECPD), have announced the launch of the Strong Earth Awards 2024.  What are the Strong Earth Awards? The Strong Earth Awards recog­nise stu­dents with a pas­sion for […]

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SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

October 3, 2023

SUNx announces ‘Climate Friendly Travel Club’

Bali, Indone­sia, Octo­ber 2, 2023: In the icon­ic glob­al tour­ism centre of Bali, SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — announced that it was launch­ing a new social enter­prise for Cli­mate Friendly Trav­el­lers, the Cli­mate Friendly Travel Club. Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx, announced this dur­ing the World Tour­ism Net­work (WTN)’s TIME Sum­mit with the form­al sig­na­ture of an SDG […]

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SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

September 27, 2023

SUNx Malta launches 50 Climate Friendly Travel Chapters in world’s LDCs

Malta’s Min­is­ter for Tour­ism Hon. Clayton Bar­to­lo MP (pic­tured above), Malta Tour­ism Author­ity (MTA) CEO Carlo Mic­allef, and Malta Tour­ism Obser­vat­ory MD Leslie Vella have launched 50 SUNx Chapters in the world’s least developed coun­tries (LDCs). Today’s launch event at MTA, as well as Malta’s broad­er sup­port of SUNx, is a key com­pon­ent of the […]

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