SUNx
Professor Geoffrey Lipman
Intro Professor Geoffrey Lipman – SUNx – a new system for Tourism destinations and stakeholders to build Climate Resilience in line with the targets of the Paris Agreement through Climate Friendly Travel
- Life history of Maurice Strong – one of the founders of sustainable development and S.G. of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit
- Collaboration with Maurice in China
Strong Universal Network (SUNx) – x for eXistential and the importance of the travel and tourism industry to the global economy
- Geoffrey’s take on flying
- SUNx – Climate Friendly Travel and regulations
- Working with the government of Malta, global education and training courses in Climate Friendly Travel
- Certification, business and carbon reduction
- Education of young people – distance learning capacity
Climate finance
Involvement with Malta, Air Malta and Cruise Ships
Covid-19, starting again and how the virus will set the time table
Endnote: SDG-17 partnership, message of Climate Friendly Travel and 2050
Professor Geoffrey Lipman current positions:
- Co-Founder at The SUNx Program. (Strong Universal Network)
- President at ICTP (International Council of Tourism Partners)
Past:
- President of the World Travel & Tourism Council – WTTC
- Executive Director, IATA
- Assistant Secretary-General, UNWTO
- UNDP Administrator
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Part of the action program supported by the Government of Malta, as a small island state, with a big tourism economy, to also be a Climate Friendly Travel leader
Julia Farrugia PortelliMinister of Tourism and Consumer Production
The history of SUNx, from The Rio Earth Summit to the Paris Climate targets and Sustainable Development Goals. An interview with Professor Geoffrey Lipman, SUNx Co-founder as part of the Leading Culture Destinations Awards
Latest campaign:
Helping Travel & Tourism Companies and Communities better respond to the existential Climate Crisis, even while dealing with the immediate COVID Crisis.
ARTICLES DISCUSSED
“All eyes are importantly on mitigating the potential pandemic of COVID-19’s impact on communities, economies and the business of travel,”
said Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President SUNx Malta,
“The same global, coordinated approach being taken to address the coronavirus is also urgently needed to address climate change. The lessons learned in tackling this potential pandemic will be able to be applied to making travel more climate-friendly.”
In this rapidly emerging new reality, lessons are being learned. Coronavirus, constituting an emergency unprecedented in modern times, has much to teach us about how civilization should deal with global crises.
And in the view of Brazilian economist and former chief financial officer of the World Bank Dr Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy, the immediate danger of coronavirus has a great deal in common with the threat of climate change.
The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.
“These challenging market conditions will be a clear test for government commitments,” Birol said. “But the good news is that compared to economic stimulus packages of the past we have much cheaper renewable technologies, have made major progress in electric vehicles, and there is a supportive financial community for the clean energy transition. If the right policies are put in place, there are opportunities to make the best of this situation.”
The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects the economic fallout of Covid-19 to wipe out the world’s oil demand growth for the year ahead, which should cap the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to the climate crisis.
IEA warns that Covid-19 could cause a slowdown in world’s clean energy transition outbreak poses a threat to long-term climate action by undermining investment in clean energy, according to the global energy watchdog expects the economic fallout of Covid-19 to wipe out the world’s oil demand growth for the year ahead, which should cap the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to the climate crisis
