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Green growth launches sun
Programme to establish a community focused renewable-energy international green growth network for travel and tourism
Green Growth has announced the launch of the Sun programme which "aims to establish a community focused, renewable energy- powered, interactive, international green growth network which will significantly increase the capacity of travelism to be a leader for climate resilience/sustainable development."
The network will provide a "living" system to coherently identify economic, social and environmental impacts of climate resilience trends, innovations & processes at local, national & international level.
Information will be fed into a global, publicly accessible web-based platform, and used to implement/support community led climate resilience programmes. It will link technological innovation such as renewable energy, cloud communications & big data econometrics with community action, education and nature based solutions.
The project seeks to work with public & private partners to initiate an industry-wide transformation, where "green" is fundamental to "growth" through meaningful policies, measurements, education and action.
The project is being developed and initially managed by the Green Growth & Travelism Institute (GGTI), a Brussels based foundation, under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Lipman at Greenearth.travel and a Board drawn from committed partners.
The pilot community centre in Mauritius will demonstrate the opportunities for green growth in a small island state context. Another pilot is planned for Limburg, Belgium which will serve as a global demonstration site in close vicinity to the capital of Europe.
SUNARK centres will be supported by the "Strong University Network" (SUN) currently made up of 11 partner universities from around the world, which has the backing of Maurice Strong (Secretary General of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit) and has been established to advance his green growth and sustainable development vision for the sector.
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