Posted on 05/28/2017 4:15:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ivanka Trump is the “first daughter” in the United States of America. Her father, US President Donald Trump has been a controversial figure when it comes to climate change and tourism.
Geoffrey Lipman can be considered a senior celebrity in the travel and tourism world. Lipman is president of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP) and co-founder of SUN. ICTP is a Haleiwa, Hawaii-based association of tourism destinations and stakeholders with members in more than 100 countries.
Brussels based Professor Lipman has a unique proposal to the first daughter and pledged to have SUN Centers manned only by women Curators and learners.
He wrote in his open letter to Ivanka Trump today:
Dear Ivanka
I want to start by “walking back” my last few months of Facebook comments on the style, morality, and substance of your father and his strategies. I misspoke.
I am writing because I see that on your recent trip to Saudi Arabia you managed to secure a donation of some 100 million dollars for your new fund for women entrepreneurs.
Also, I read (admittedly in liberal media) that another of your pet projects is climate change – and that you may be able to influence US policy on this (which would be great – go for it).
I have a small project that falls neatly into the sweet spot between your heartfelt interests and was wondering if there was scope for collaboration.
SUNx the Strong Universal Network wants to help Travelism (Travel & Tourism) destinations and all their stakeholders become more climate resilient through what we call Impact-Travel – measured, green and 2050 focused. If we could help move the sector progressively to a green growth, low-carbon, socially inclusive trajectory it would make a huge difference to the overall global shift.
With like-minded colleagues, we have created a robust plan to put learning centres in every country over the next decade, connected in the cloud and sharing innovations and response techniques between communities. Many of the solutions exist and others will flow from concentration on. the SDG and Climate targets (where I know you will be able to help your Dad reach the right answer for humanity)
We have a proof of concept center launching in the last quarter of this year in Belgium’s National Park in the Province of Limburg. Our work is self-financed to date and now we are about to look for Impact Investors who share our vision and belief in positive action to beat extreme climate change. Frankly, we need 2 million dollars to operationalize and my thoughts immediately turned to you.
What if we ensure SUNx Centres are manned (you know what I mean) only by women Curators and learners. Could you see your way to investing 2 million of the Saudi Arabian contribution with us? We have a payback schedule over 10 years and a return of 5% per annum.
Please let me know what you think – your new friend
Geoffrey Lipman
We have a payback schedule over 10 years and a return of 5% per annum. ( forgot MAYBE —begging anyway )
Either this is fake news or it's the lamest apology I've seen in my lifetime, followed immediately by a hand out for money. Or maybe it's just insulting a woman. Who are these people? (fake news writer or real person, either or)
Why is this going to ivanka??? She is not suppose to be involved in the managing of the money or fund raising..or maybe I have that wrong. World bank is responsible.
This is like those people who write Powerball winners trying to get a handout.
How exactly does one do that?
And there is part of the problem....
Btw.that 100 million dollars to empower women..from a country that regards them as less than men...is just about the same amount of money saved with kushners phone call.
Didnt anyone think that hey..it might be better if we waited a little bit
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The post office? People who write letters? Ivanka, for daring to be the daughter of our president?
People who are so jealous of Ivanka that they spend hours a day denigrating her?
Take ivanka’s name off. Call it the chelsea clinton fund run by the world bank with hillary as potus.
...can you see the possible problems then...
Pay to play through another layer..
Curry favor..donate money
Saudis dont care about empowering women to the tune of 100 million.
.even you cant possibly believe that
Jealousy is blinding.
Saudis wanted an arms deal..and it is a big one...they just happened to save money because of kushner...that turned around and was donated to ivanka’s fund...to empower a sex that saudis believe is substandard
All just happy coincidence. .... whatever...
This is the kind of thing they should avoid in the future...
Your perspective is flawed.
You can advocate for more three way deals if you wish
Exactly. And notice he called it “her fund”. Sounds like a setup to me. And why is this letter being published? I smell a rat.
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