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.

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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50 full scholarships for Climate Friendly Travel Diploma

August 18, 2023

Climate Friendly Travel Diploma: 50 full scholarships for students in SIDS and other developing states

Are you a gradu­ate in travel & tour­ism who is flu­ent in Eng­lish? Are you from one of the 39 SIDS (Small Island Devel­op­ing States)? SUNx Malta is offer­ing 50 full schol­ar­ships for the 2023 intake of its two-year online Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) Diploma.

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No apologies: ‘eXistential’ climate change and peak GHG emissions 2025 are not advocacy issues. Travel & tourism must act now!

and June 5, 2023

No apologies: ‘Existential’ climate change and peak GHG emissions 2025 are not advocacy issues. Travel & tourism must act now!

We at SUNx Malta make no apo­lo­gies for push­ing the exist­en­tial imper­at­ive of achiev­ing peak GHG emis­sions by 2025. We are reach­ing out to the lead­er­ship of the travel & tour­ism sec­tor to act on the latest IPCC report call­ing for three clear tar­gets to sta­bil­ise glob­al tem­per­at­ures at Par­is 1.5°C by mid-century …

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World’s 46 Least Developed Countries to have Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters by September: Lipman

March 7, 2023

Strong Climate Friendly Travel Chapters to help world's least developed coutnries (LDCs). Photo by Miguel Bruna via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/@mbrunacr

DOHA, QATAR, MARCH 7, 2023: SUNx Malta will set up Strong Cli­mate Friendly Travel Chapters in all 46 least developed coun­tries (LDCs), plus select small island states. Chapters will work loc­ally to advance SUNx’ ambi­tious and action­able Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) agenda, which is focused on a Par­is 1.5°C tar­get. SUNx co-founder and pres­id­ent Geoffrey […]

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World Tourism Day marks launch of Climate Friendly Travel podcast

September 28, 2022

SUNx Malta Climate Friendly Travel Podcast

In cel­eb­ra­tion of World Tour­ism Day and its theme of “Rethink­ing Tour­ism”, SUNx 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, SUNx Malta Pres­id­ent Pro­fess­or Geof­frey Lip­man said: “Our goal is to encour­age tour­ism stakeholders […]

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Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, planetary hero

and September 3, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, May 12, 2010 by Veni (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/veni/4602977436/in/photostream/

Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30th, 2022. The former Pres­id­ent of the Uni­on of Soviet Social­ist Repub­lics (USSR) is best remembered as the man who engin­eered the peace­ful trans­form­a­tion of the USSR and the open­ing of the Ber­lin Wall. Less known is the fact that dur­ing his incred­ible life he col­lab­or­ated closely with Maurice Strong. Togeth­er they […]

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