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.

SUNx Malta launches “Climate Friendly Travel Registry”

September 25, 2020

SUNx Malta Launches Climate Friendly Travel Registry Supporting 2050 Climate Neutral & Sustainability Ambitions of Travel & Tourism

Press release from “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work: Today dur­ing Cli­mate Week NYC and in the side-lines of UN Gen­er­al Assembly, SUNx Malta launched a Cli­mate Friendly Travel Registry for 2050 Cli­mate Neut­ral & Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Ambi­tions in part­ner­ship with the World Travel & Tour­ism Coun­cil (WTTC), and Thompson Okanagan Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation (TOTA). The idea […]

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SUNx Malta launches world-first Climate Friendly Travel Diploma with ITS

April 23, 2020

SUNx Malta launches world-first Climate Friendly Travel Diploma with ITS

Press release from “GT” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work:  Val­letta, Malta, 21st April 2020: Today in Val­letta, SUNx Malta and The Insti­tute of Tour­ism Stud­ies (ITS) launched the first Tour­ism course ded­ic­ated to the trans­form­a­tion of the Travel & Tour­ism industry in line with the Par­is Cli­mate Accord and tagged to the SDGs. It flows […]

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First SUNx climate-friendly travel think tank releases calls to act & act now

February 29, 2020

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The key calls to action from the inaug­ur­al SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work Cli­mate Friendly Travel Think Tank that con­cluded in Malta were (accord­ing to the offi­cial press release): The Cli­mate Crisis is eXist­en­tial. All stake­hold­ers includ­ing Trans­port, Hos­pit­al­ity, Travel Ser­vices, and Infra­struc­ture Pro­viders must urgently start the trans­form­a­tion in 2020 to get onto the Par­is 1.5o […]

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SUN calls for “moon-shot” effort by aviation sector to be zero-carbon by 2050

January 24, 2020

sunx calls for decarbonisation moon-shot by aviation

“Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — has again called for a “moon-shot” effort by the avi­ation and air trans­port sec­tor to be zero-car­­bon by 2050.  Dur­ing FITUR, the inter­na­tion­al tour­ism fair in Mad­rid, SUNx Co-Founder Geof­frey Lip­man said that the avi­ation sector’s decar­bon­isa­tion pledge — for 50% of 2005 levels — was now more than a dec­ade old and was […]

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Climate change focus for “GT” Insight Partnership

and December 12, 2019

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SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work is the latest “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner. As a “GT” Insight Part­ner, SUNx will inspire industry-wide con­ver­sa­tions and debate around tour­ism and cli­mate change.  As with all “GT” Insight Part­ners, SUNx will reg­u­larly identi­fy and invite an opin­ion or prac­tice lead­er work­ing in the area of cli­mate change & tour­ism to write […]

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How will 100,000 climate champions achieve a climate-neutral future for tourism?

December 12, 2019

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Olly Wheatcroft, Pro­gram Man­ager for “GT” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work, writes about the organ­isa­tion’s Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons Pro­gram, an edu­ca­tion and train­ing ini­ti­at­ive to sup­port 100,000 next-gen­er­­a­­tion lead­ers in all UN regions by 2030. The SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work (with the x being “exist­en­tial”) is a new sys­tem for tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and industry stake­hold­ers to build climate […]

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