Prof Geoffrey Lipman
Geoffrey Lipman is a former top official and innovator at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), and United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
In his current roles as chief disruption architect and professor at GreenEarth.travel, and co-founder of the SUNx Program, Prof Lipman advocates concepts such as “green growth”, “impact-travel”, and “travelism”, and asserts that climate change is “existential”.
Prof Lipman’s firm belief that climate change has the potential to knock out our species has not only inspired him to add the “x” to SUNx, but is also driving him to pursue the most ambitious project of his career; the realisation of a Strong Universal Network (SUNx) that will empower and resource current and emerging generations who must face the existential threat head on.
SUNx Malta has a “BIG IDEA” for World Tourism Day 2025: Dodo4Kids, an initiative dedicated to “Climate Friendly Travel Education for the next generation”.
“Dodo4Kids is designed to inspire young travellers to enjoy great tourism destinations while learning about the related threats of the climate crisis and challenges for sustainable development.”
Read More SUNx’ BIG IDEA for World Tourism Day 2025: Dodo4Kids
We would like to invite you to join us at the Strong Earth Youth Summit (SEYS) 2025. The free online event will take place April 29 at 1400 – 1530 CEST (1300 – 1430 GMT/UTC). » Please Register Here « SEYS will highlight the need for a clean and green future for tourism. It will profile Climate Friendly Travel: […]
Read More To advance Climate Friendly Travel, sign up for the Strong Earth Youth Summit 2025
There is increasing chatter on social media about the need for ‘Climate Justice’. At its core, Climate Justice is ensuring a very strong measure of protection for those who did the least to create the ‘Code Red Climate Crisis’, and who are likely to be the most to suffer from climate change, and who are […]
Read More ‘Climate Justice’ in tourism shouldn’t be too hard and it’s the right thing to do
We at SUNx Malta make no apologies for pushing the existential imperative of achieving peak GHG emissions by 2025. We are reaching out to the leadership of the travel & tourism sector to act on the latest IPCC report calling for three clear targets to stabilise global temperatures at Paris 1.5°C by mid-century …
Read More No apologies: ‘eXistential’ climate change and peak GHG emissions 2025 are not advocacy issues. Travel & tourism must act now!
Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30th, 2022. The former President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is best remembered as the man who engineered the peaceful transformation of the USSR and the opening of the Berlin Wall. Less known is the fact that during his incredible life he collaborated closely with Maurice Strong. Together they […]
Read More Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, planetary hero
On the 50th Anniversary of the Stockholm Earth Summit, and the 30th Anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit — both of which were led by my friend Maurice Strong, the inspiration for SUNx Malta (Strong Universal Network) — I gave a keynote at a Stockholm event reflecting on the dominant role Maurice played in creating today’s United Nations-led climate […]
Read More Back to the future: A sustainability plan for our kids