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World Travel & Tourism Industry Pledges Climate Neutrality

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Great NEWS from the UNFCCC about the WTCC :World Travel & Tourism Industry Pledges Climate Neutrality now let's see how the worlds leading tourism destinations join Tourism4SDGs.org by the UNWTO to drive positive change including climate actoion leadership Austria Switzerland and Germany three of the top 10 leading Sustainable Development Ranking nations can lead the way https://unfccc.int/news/world-travel-tourism-industry-pledges-climate-neutrality The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has
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Great news from my Hometown Utrecht in the Netherlands it looks like after the Start of the Tour De France the Vuelta will also start in the Netherlands in the Bike Capital of the world! Keep your fingers crossed! I have never seen so many happy people in Utrecht as in that Grand Depart weekend! Simply fantastic what Cor Jansen and his team have done for the Global Goals City of Utrecht! Looking forward to 2020! I had a great afterparty with Cor Jansen where he told me i have been riding the Ötztal Radmarathon...because of my cap he told me all the details about the tour...RESPECT its the toughest race i know...gave him a Sölden Cap that Jack Falkner gave me... for very inspiring people...and Cor is very inspiring first the Giro in Utrecht next the Tour de France and now we have good hope for the Vuelta in 2020! Mindblowing! But that is the Bike Capital of the world...The Global Goals City of Utrecht is leading not just on Sustainability Innovation with their focus on healthy urb

Let’s make tourism a driver for realizing the #SDGs

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Let’s make tourism a driver for realizing the #SDGs   #Mission2030 Promoting a greater engagement of the tourism sector with sustainable development is the main objective of the Tourism for SDGs Platform. The online tool is designed to advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through tourism, and was developed by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) with the support of Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute an ambitious global agenda for people, planet, prosperity and peace through partnerships. The SDGs aim to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and solve climate change by 2030. The economic relevance of tourism, representing up to 10% of the world’s GDP and employment, makes harnessing its full potential essential for the advancement of the SDGs. Tourism4SDGs.org  is a co-creation space that allows users to access a wide range of resources, add their ow