Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  Earth Day Message from SUNx Brussels / Malta 20 th April 2026   SUNx Malta – Strong Universal Network Releases New “Symphony of Change” Dodo4Kids video to Celebrate Earth Day 2026   Composed and sung by Platinum Award winning artist Alston Koch, this catchy 4-minute video features our resurrected Dodo teaching a group of kids to help with Ocean Clean up.   It is also part of the Strong Earth Festival on 29 th April (Earth Day + 7) celebrating the enormous contribution of the late Maurice Strong to protection of our planet – including organising the Stockholm 1972 and Rio 1992 Earth Summits, leading to the Conventions on Climate Change, on Biodiversity and the SDG’s: as well as launching the Earth Charter in 2000 with Mikhael Gorbachev.   Professor Geoffrey Lipman President of SUN x Malta said “It’s always a pleasure to produce music with Alston for the good of our planet. And this time to incorporate our Dodo4Kids in the video urging the n...

      Dear   Michael (Felix) WELCOME to the 15th edition of eXist the monthly e-bulletin of SUN x Malta .      “Climate Action 2023”     Another Year Passes - Progress in so many small ways - a record number of Tourism Climate Reports - an arguably successful Climate COP, with a Methane Control Agreement and some movement on the Climate Fund for the poorest countries transformation.  Plus a distinctively successful Biodive...

 Guest blog by Geoffrey Lipman - Present UNx Malta and former Assistant Secretary General of the UN World Trade Organization 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 Atlantic. And growing numbers of Climate refugees around the world.   COP 26, in November kept Climate on the public agenda. We saw a Glasgow Tourism Declaration & at SUNx we unveiled a Code Red , Plan for our Kids, calling for our sector to go further, faster. It argues for 50% less carbon emissions by 2030: and absolute Zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) by 2050;   including the more potent methane, sulphur and nitrous compounds. And it’s absolute zero not some vague “net,” kick the can down the 2050 ...

Statement on signing The Glasgow Tourism Declaration, from the President of  SUNx Malta , Professor Geoffrey Lipman: “ The Glasgow Tourism Declaration  is a great start to improve sector climate response, and we are pleased to be an early signatory. It moves in the right direction, but it has to go further and it has to go faster. It builds on previous UNWTO Tourism & Climate Declarations in Djerba in 2003 and Davos in 2007. All good and well intentioned, but now we need much more to help to avert the “Code Red” Climate Crisis that all UN states are facing. To fully respond to the science and the extreme weather calamities around the world we need a DASH-2-Zero if we are to cross the finishing line in time. The Glasgow goal of a Net Carbon Zero travel industry by 2050 should shift to 2030, with a hard stop of all greenhouse gas emissions (carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, and methane compounds) by 2050. This will be our focus. What is very positive is the emphasis on measurement ...

"Calls for increased climate crisis response from the travel & tourism Sector" New York/Brussels/Beijing - September 24, 2019:    A l andmark report issued today by  SUN x , in conjunction with the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) on the sidelines of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit and the parallel WTTC Travel & Tourism Summit, calls for intensified greenhouse gas emission reduction from the tourism industry. The SUN x Climate Friendly Travel Report , analyses the evolving Paris Climate Framework with its hardening 2050 greenhouse gas reduction goals and lower than 1.5 degree temperature increase trajectory. It concludes that: The Climate Crisis is real and existential, stressing that the world is reaching a tipping point. The Travel & Tourism Sector is generally behind the crisis response trend and will fall further behind without urgent industry- and government-committed climate action programs. There is still ...

The Climate smART Award is the first cultural initiative of SUNx – Strong Universal Network, which exists to actively encourage the massive Travel & Tourism sector to play a leading role in response to eXistential Climate Change. It is a legacy to our friend Maurice Strong, a champion of Sustainable Development and advocate for Travelism to radically revitalize its climate resilience actions, through Impact-Travel: measured; green; 2050 proofed. Professor Geoffrey Lipman, SUNx Co-founder said: “Climate Change is eXistential. SUNx strongly supports The Paris Accords which are under irresponsible threat. Travel and Tourism must stand up to this challenge, and public opinion can play a big part. This award will honor museums and cultural centers that make public education a priority and we are delighted to join up with Leading Culture Destinations Awards (LCD) – sharing their vision of Museums as focal points for education of travelers.” Geoffrey Lipman Building partnerships ...