13/09/2024
Tourism can be a very strong leverage to address climate change. The industry needs stronger action now.
Climate change is killing the planet. What we must do to help prevent that.
Longtime travel executive, educator and consultant Herb Hiller says the industry needs to focus less on arrival numbers and more on important travel-related issues that impact communities and the planet.
24/04/2024
The link between poverty and sustainable development has been recognized by UNEP from its beginnings and part of the reason they chose to place their headquarters in Nairobi instead of Geneva, or New York.
Economists are increasingly realizing that the elimination of poverty is going to require some redistribution of the wealth, not something some Western countries want to address>
Comunicado Eradicating Poverty and Hunger is an Indispensable Requirement for Achieving Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean | Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Accede al comunicado Eradicating Poverty and Hunger is an Indispensable Requirement for Achieving Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lee el texto completo aquí.
30/10/2023
Impeding aid to Gaza could be crime under ICC jurisdiction, says prosecutor (Al Jazeera)
The International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan told a news conference in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday that Israel must make “discernible e...
23/06/2020
Soil Prof Hits Pay Dirt: $250K Prize For Helping Farmers, Fighting Climate Change
Meet 2020 World Food Prize Laureate: Rattan Lal. His "soil-centric" philosophy is praised as being good for crops — and for mitigating climate change.
22/02/2020
Buildings Made of "Moss-Growing Concrete" Could Remove More CO2 and Air Pollution than Thousands of Trees
Researchers have developed a “living concrete” that grows moss, lichens and fungi that could turn city buildings into giant air purifiers Spanish researchers have developed a porous, acidic concrete that acts almost like soil for moss, lichen, fungi and other drought-tolerant vegetation. They ar...
08/12/2019
The World Tourism Organization is calling for enhanced cooperation between the transport and tourism sectors to combat .
Greener tourism: Greater collaboration needed to tackle rising emissions
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is calling for enhanced cooperation between the transport and tourism sectors to combat climate change.
08/11/2019
We're looking forward to welcoming tourism leaders, sustainability practitioners, destination managers and project experts from around the world for our upcoming Practitioner facilitated online course in November! http://bit.ly/PM4SD-1902
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Project Management for Sustainable Development, Practitioner-Level (PM4SD-1902)
🔹Course Dates: Nov 18-29, 2019
🔹PM4SD Trainers: Silvia Barbone, Anne-Maria Makela
🔹Course Facilitator: Ayako Ezaki
🔹Guest Presenters: Chris Seek, CEO, Solimar International; Valeria Croce, Head of Travel Business Intelligence, Eurail Group GIE; Carol Hay, Director of Marketing UK & Europe, Caribbean Tourism Organization
🔹About: PM4SD is an effective framework for project management, enabling tourism practitioners to use tourism as a positive force for social, economic and cultural change.
The PM4SD Practitioner course focuses on tailoring the PM4SD approach and applying project management best practices in real-life situations.
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➡️ Learn more & join: http://bit.ly/PM4SD-1902
Project Management for Sustainable Development, Practitioner (PM4SD-1902) | TrainingAid
18/10/2019
The Dvin Hall Is waiting for our guests. Only two hours left for the 2019
17/10/2019
Everything is ready for tomorrow.
We are happy and thrilled for our great event in -1day
17/10/2019
The exists thanks to Silvia Barbone efforts and passion. She will welcome all the delegates on Thursday the 18th and she will introduce us to the "Successful, transformative, sustainable tourism projects: "