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.

Open letter to UNWTO, UNEP, UNFCCC, and Glasgow tourism climate action signatories

August 12, 2022

Glasgow Declaration: Climate Action in Tourism

First pub­lished on “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx Malta’s web­site, this is an open let­ter from SUNx to the heads of UNWTO, UNEP, UNFCCC, and the sig­nat­or­ies of the Glas­gow Declar­a­tion: Cli­mate Action in Tour­ism: With sup­port from the Gov­ern­ment of Malta, we have set up a glob­al Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) frame­work to sup­port climate […]

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Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids

and June 6, 2022

Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids was led and then inspired by Maurice Strong whose legacy continues through the SUNx Strong Universal Network

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 […]

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Hello 2022: Hello Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

and January 7, 2022

Hello 2022 and Code Red, Climate Friendly Travel

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 […]

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CODE RED: SUNx’ 7‑point climate action plan for tourism is more ambitious than the Glasgow Declaration

and November 26, 2021
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Climate Friendly Travel; SUNx' Code Red Plan for our Kids

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 […]

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“Good Tourism” Partners to jointly support UN SDGs, climate-friendly travel

and June 9, 2021

"GT" Partners Planet Happiness and SUNx sign MOU. Image by GDJ (CC0) via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/vectors/background-abstract-psychedelic-5558927/

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 […]

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Time to be ‘Strong’: Unprecedented NFT Earth Swatch auction to benefit tourism’s post-pandemic recovery, climate resilience, and environmental causes

April 13, 2021

Time to be ‘Strong’: Unprecedented NFT Earth Swatch auction to benefit tourism’s post-pandemic recovery, climate resilience, and environmental causes

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 […]

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