Ivanka Trump will not save the planet

Ivanka Trump gets on an elevator at Trump
 Tower, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in New York.

When it comes to climate policy, President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle is shaping up to be a bleak wasteland of climate denial and Koch-funded fossil fuel cronyism. So climate activists could be forgiven for clinging to what seems like a potential bright spot in the incoming Trump administration’s relationship with climate action: the emergence of First Daughter Ivanka Trump as a climate champion.

The news about Ivanka’s interest in climate change has come fast and furious over the past week. Last Thursday, Politico published an account from an anonymous source claiming that Ivanka hoped to make climate change “one of her signature issues,” and she was currently “in the early stages of exploring how to use her spotlight to speak out on the issue.”

Then, over the weekend, New York Magazine reported that Leonardo DiCaprio sat down with Ivanka to talk about climate issues and gave her a copy of his climate change documentary, Before the Flood. But both of those accounts pale in comparison to the interest sparked by the news that Ivanka would meet with former Vice President Al Gore on Monday to discuss climate issues.

Read the Think Progress story by Natasha Geiling – “Ivanka Trump will not save the planet.”