Generation Earth enters new partnership
Tsogo Sun will host a green networking platform with the youth, for the youth and by the youth.
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH – A new agreement between Generation Earth and Tsogo Sun will see the hotel become the venue and accommodation partner for their annual summit in October. The announcement of the new partnership was made on World Environment Day.
Tsogo Sun will host a green networking platform with the youth, for the youth and by the youth, which recognises and develops green thinkers who are tomorrow’s global leaders. This new relationship follows on several years of partnership with sister organisation Miss Earth.
“Supporting youth in their efforts to build a sustainable future for us is the right thing to do, and we are proud to do it,” said Candy Tothill, Tsogo Sun’s executive of corporate affairs.
At the Generation Earth Summit in October, student councils will present innovations linked to COP21’s theme of food security and water and energy conservation. COP21, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place from November 30 to December 11 in Paris. COP21 will aim to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below two degrees Celcius.
“We’re delighted to be welcoming Tsogo Sun to the environmental initiatives of Generation Earth,” says Ella Bella Constantinides, founder of Generation Earth and a UN youth mentor. “We have no doubt that the relationship will be as warm and rewarding as it is with the Miss Earth organisation, and that soon Generation Earth will also regard Tsogo Sun as ‘home’.”
Also introduced at the World Environment Day event were the Johannesburg nominees for Miss Earth 2015, who have all been planting vegetable gardens and trees as well as getting involved in waste projects, in preparation for the crowning of the new Miss Earth in September.
