Nobel laureate Mohan Munasinghe, who won the Peace Prize in 2007 addressed the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) yesterday, Wednesday 25 February 2015 and appealed to all sectors of national life to come together to rescue the area surrounding the Ozama River. Munasinghe, a sustainable development specialist, says that there must be a balance between social, economic and environmental elements, which can only be obtained through cohesion between government, civil society and the private sector.
During his speech the Nobel laureate said that all that is needed is to bring “the best of the business community to take part in this project and to rely on its cooperation and active participation.”
He said that this proposal for recovery fits perfectly within the framework of the 2015 United Nations plan for halting the negative impact of climate change.
He said that the work methodology should be based on certain principles. “The first of these principles is that we want to have an equilibrium between the social economic and environmental aspects.” In the second place he mentioned the role that the Rio Coalition should play as a catalyzing agent for a government-society-private sector triangle.