Sustainable News
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UNWTO: Stepping Up Support for Safe and Sustainable Recovery of Tourism
Millions of jobs are at risk. Tourism is a major driver of the world economy, accounting for 7% of international trade. Globally, tourism generates directly or indirectly one in every…
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Beyond tourism: investing in local communities to protect Africa’s wild spaces
For ten years, Dixon Parmuya has guided tourists on bush walks around Amboseli National Park in Southern Kenya. But since COVID-19 swept through Kenya in mid-March, the country’s tourism industry…
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UNWTO supports EBRD’s Web Tool for Green Technologies
The EBRD and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are joining forces to promote sustainable tourism, accelerate the transfer of climate finance and make green technologies more accessible for the tourism…
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SUNx Malta Launches Climate Friendly Travel Registry
During the 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…
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Rimba Raya Becomes First REDD+ Forest Conservation Project in the World
InfiniteEARTH’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve in Borneo has become the world’s first REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) forest conservation project to independently verify its contributions to environment,…
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United Nations calls for collective action in special 2020 broadcast
The United Nations, Project Everyone and 72 Films have released “Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times,” a first of its kind film to be broadcast globally on YouTube, you…
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World Economic Forum Announces Co-Chairs of 4th Sustainable Development Impact Summit
The World Economic Forum announced today the co-chairs of the annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit. The summit’s fourth year comes at a time unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic has…
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WTTC Proud to Present First in Series of Virtual Events
The World Travel & Tourism Council presents its first in a series of Travel & Tourism focused virtual events next week, kicking off with “One Voice – Accelerating the Sustainability…
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US Businesses, Governments and Non-Profits Join Global Push for 1 Trillion Trees
26 forward-looking companies, cities, and organizations across the US announced they will help combat extreme heat and wildfires, as well as other adverse effects of climate change, by conserving, restoring,…
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PATA Joins Global Tourism Plastic Initiative to Take on Plastic Pollution
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has today become a signatory of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Tourism Organization, in collaboration…