SUNx Malta

SUNx Malta were “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner from July 2020 to Decem­ber 2025. 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.

“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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Back to the future: Time for more ambitious climate action from travel & tourism

March 12, 2021

New hope through climate friendly travel SUNx Malta

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 […]

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‘Freeze or Fry Challenge’ highlights need to ACT NOW on climate crisis: SUNx

January 21, 2021

Fire vs ice. Image by thommas68 (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/fire-and-water-fight-hands-fire-2354583/

The travel & tour­ism industry is urged to help save the plan­et. Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUNx Malta, has wel­comed the start of Joe Biden’s Pres­id­ency with a chal­lenge for us all to use the moment to act now to help redress the dev­ast­at­ing impact of cli­mate change. “As a kid we had a silly joke […]

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SUNx Malta to stage first Strong Earth Youth Summit

December 23, 2020

The ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ (SEYS), April 29, 2021

“Good Tour­ism” Part­ner announce­ment: Youth Sum­mit to cre­ate tomorrow’s Cli­mate Friendly Travel lead­ers through a vir­tu­al pro­gram of fun and edu­ca­tion­al events, as well as cre­ate Cli­mate Friendly Travel Cham­pi­ons. SUNx Malta will host the first ever cli­mate friendly youth travel sum­mit in April 2021. The ‘Strong Earth Youth Sum­mit’ (SEYS) will include lec­tures, workshops […]

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Climate Friendly Travel Registry gains 200 from Thompson Okanagan, Canada

November 28, 2020

Lake Kelowna, Okanagan, BC, Canada. Image (CC0) via Needpix. https://www.needpix.com/photo/download/661152/okanagan-bc-lake-kelowna-free-pictures-free-photos-free-images-royalty-free-free-illustrations

Mes­sage from Dr Hans Friederich, regis­trar of the SUNx Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry. SUNx is a “GT” Part­ner. Dur­ing the Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA) Sum­mit, the news was shared that 200 tour­ism SMEs from this Cana­dian Region will register their car­bon reduc­tion and sus­tain­ab­il­ity ambi­tions on the SUNx Malta Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) […]

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