SUNx Malta has been a valued “Good Tourism” Partner since July 2020. This is an archive page for SUNx’ “GT” Partner messages.
SUNx Malta
— 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.
On the 50th Anniversary of the Stockholm Earth Summit, and the 30th Anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit — both of which were led by my friend Maurice Strong, the inspiration for SUNx Malta (Strong Universal Network) — I gave a keynote at a Stockholm event reflecting on the dominant role Maurice played in creating today’s United Nations-led climate […]
Read More Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids
Goodbye 2021 Despite the permanent drama of an intensifying pandemic, 2021 also underscored the magnitude of our creeping, existential global climate crisis. Weather extremes decimated communities on all continents: Crazy floods in Europe and Canada; Massive forest fires in the US and Australia; Droughts in Africa; Typhoons in the Pacific and the Atlantic; and growing […]
Read More Hello 2022: Hello Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel
At SUNx Malta we have a clear view of the path forward for our sector to respond to the “code red” climate crisis identified by UN Secretary General António Guterres. It’s more ambitious than the heavily marketed Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, specifically in terms of earlier delivery dates, coverage of all greenhouse […]
Read More CODE RED: SUNx’ 7‑point climate action plan for tourism is more ambitious than the Glasgow Declaration
New memorandum of understanding (MOU) between partners of The “Good Tourism” Blog signed to mark World Environment Day, June 5. On World Environment Day, June 5, “GT” Partners Planet Happiness and SUNx signed a MOU related to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate-friendly travel. According to a news release, the aim is to […]
Read More “Good Tourism” Partners to jointly support UN SDGs, climate-friendly travel
The parties behind the auction — global initiative for Climate Friendly Travel SUNx — Strong Universal Network and cybersecurity company WISeKey — have created the first ever non-fungible token (NFT) related to climate change and sustainability. The first-off-the-line “Earth Swatch” watch, designed by climate activist and sustainable development pioneer Maurice Strong for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, is going up for […]
Read More Time to be ‘Strong’: Unprecedented NFT Earth Swatch auction to benefit tourism’s post-pandemic recovery, climate resilience, and environmental causes
President of “Good Tourism” Partner SUNx Malta, Geoffrey Lipman, reports: “UN Climate Chief Patricia Espinosa has formally confirmed to our SDG 17 partner Gloria Guevara at the WTTC top level support for the SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Registry, and urged travel & tourism organisations to file their carbon reduction plans.” Here is Professor Lipman’s […]
Read More Back to the future: Time for more ambitious climate action from travel & tourism