{"id":1441,"date":"2020-08-17T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26152"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:23:25","slug":"sunx-malta-looking-for-greta-thunbergs-for-travel-and-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/sunx-malta-looking-for-greta-thunbergs-for-travel-and-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNx Malta Looking for Greta Thunberg\u2019s for Travel and Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/world\/sunx-malta-looking-for-greta-thunbergs-for-travel-and-tourism\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SUNx Malta Looking for Greta Thunberg&#039;s for Travel and Tourism-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/SUNx-Malta-Looking-for-Greta-Thunbergs-for-Travel-and-Tourism-TRAVELINDEX-e1597631952810-500x315.jpg\" alt=\"SUNx Malta Looking for Greta Thunberg&#8217;s for Travel and Tourism\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Valetta, Malta, August 17, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ SUN<sup>x<\/sup> Malta is working to build a \u201c<strong>Climate Friendly Travel<\/strong>\u201d future \u2013 Low-carbon: SDG-linked: Paris 1.5 trajectory. Our goal is to help companies and communities boost their Climate Resilience.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Covid-19 is today\u2019s harsh reality, but we believe that existential Climate Change will be many times worse, and that we also need to prepare smartly and thoughtfully for a Climate Neutral future, while responding to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our program we are launching an online Diploma course to train young people to be <strong>Champions for Climate Friendly Travel<\/strong>, helping to support change in companies and communities. The training program has been developed with Malta\u2019s Institute of Tourism Studies, runs for 12-months, is taught by some 25 of the world\u2019s thought leaders on Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism, at modest cost. As an online course, it has been designed to fit with existing roles, and strengthen organisational capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Geoffrey Lipman, SUN<sup>x<\/sup> Malta President said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking for people with the same mindset as Greta Thunberg about Climate Change, as well as having a belief that Climate Friendly Travel is the only way for our sector to play its part in the New Climate Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural course starts in October 2020 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesunprogram.com\/climate-friendly-travel-diploma\"><strong>Full details and registration can be found here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valetta, Malta, August 17, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ SUNx Malta is working to build a \u201cClimate Friendly Travel\u201d future \u2013 Low-carbon: SDG-linked: Paris 1.5 trajectory. Our goal is to help companies and communities boost their Climate Resilience. We know that Covid-19 is today\u2019s harsh reality, but we believe that existential Climate Change will be many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}