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Yeti Airlines Partners with UN for SDGs

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Yeti Airlines Partners with UN for SDGs
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October 10: Yeti Airlines has started displaying the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals logo in its aircrafts. The SDG-branded logo was unveiled amid a function at the Tribhuvan International Airport on September 25, the airlines informed. 

With its SDG-branded aircraft, shuttle buses, handy SDG leaflets, donate now link inclusion in Yeti Airlines official website, branding of the boarding pass and social media campaigns, the airline is expected to reach thousands of people with concrete and action-oriented messages on the global goals, the company said in a statement.

 “This is a powerful example to show the world that in partnership with the private sector, the sustainable development agenda can really take off. We are highly pleased to finally see these aeroplanes flying in Nepali skies spreading the messages on how we can tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges,” the statement quoted UNDP Country Director Renaud Meyer as saying.

 “In Nepal, we have been exploring ways in which the United Nations could help the local businesses grow more responsible and SDG friendly. With Yeti, we hope to soon unveil equally inspiring joint initiatives that help Nepal meet the global goals by 2030,” he added.

Yeti Airlines said it is one of the first in Nepal’s private sector to partner with the United Nations to promote the SDGs and address many key issues facing Nepal over the next 15 years, and by branding its aircraft with the logos, Yeti and the UN is helping bring the SDGs to the entire country.

Yeti Airlines added that the branding of its ATR 72-500 aircraft with the UN SDGs logo demonstrates the company’s continuing commitment to promote the UN goals wherever possible and to do what it can to assist Nepal achieve them.

“We thank the United Nations for the opportunity to support these worthy goals,” the company said in the statement.

The initiative is part of the airlines’ on-going partnership with the United Nations in Nepal for the promotion and achievement of the SDGs. Following an agreement earlier in May, the airliner and the UN have come forward with a series of joint programmes and activities aimed at raising awareness on the SDGs and helping Nepal meet some of the global goals targets, according to the press statement.

Under the partnership, Yeti Airlines informed that it would also collaborate with the UN to explore, adopt and promote innovative and sustainable business models in the aviation and tourism industry that would help Nepal meet some specific SDG indicators in the areas of climate change adaptation, poverty reduction and gender equality.

Adopted by the UN Member States, including Nepal, in September 2015, the SDGs, also known as the Global Goals, are a bold, universal agreement to end poverty in all its dimensions and craft an equal, just and secure world – for the people, the planet and prosperity – by 2030.

 

 

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