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for September, 2015

2015: ‘Once in a lifetime’ chance for Green Growth and Travelism

Posted on September 18, 2015 in Current News - 0 comments -

An Article from The Guardian by Green Growth 2050 Chairman, Professor Geoff Lipman

The SDGs reframe the Earth summit agreements into a new global blueprint for the 21st century – a “transformational agenda” for sustainable development to 2030 and beyond.

It’s a long journey, with each country, locality and individual coming from a different starting point, with unique capacities and reasons to change. Ultimately we have to get to the same end point by 2050 – the date, where science and politics are converging on livable global temperature stabilisation. With new multi-billion dollar funds, legal frameworks and collaborations to support that change.

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Green Growth & Travelism Summer School brings together global leaders in Sustainable Tourism

Posted on September 3, 2015 in Current News - 0 comments -

By Professor Geoff Lipman, Chairman, Green Growth 2050

The Summer School again brought together some 40 thinkers and learners from every continent, for a week of discussions, which included some 20 interactive lectures on core sustainability challenges and opportunities for society generally and for Travel & Tourism specifically. It included a visit to the National Park, Hoge Kempen, led by its charismatic Director Ignace Schops, an introduction to the European Parliament and the Commission’s 2020 Horizons research program, as well as an engaging keynote on renewable energy futures, by Tom Goldberg MBE, the Chairman of SunArk. The faculty included academic, industry, NGO and community specialists as well as experts in technology, marketing and biodiversity conservation.

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