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Gentleman, final points. professor munasinghe. 0k. ifully agree. this is the world that we are inheriting, which we have created, is not very sustainable and its up to the young people to use modern technologies and so on to solve it, so they must be given a seat. make a very quick point, there is a report out in 2019, as chair of the presidential expert commission, which is called sustainable sri lanka 2030 vision. i made a point, out of 15 chapters, one is called the voice of the youth. there ...

The government a very good scorecard there. ok, professor munasinghe, how would you answer this question? i pick up on your last point — i think we are going through a severe economic crisis. so i agree with the ambitious long—term plans that the minister has set out and, globally, with the 2050 target for zero carbon. but that doesnt mean that each and every country can achieve that target, because especially if youre poor and youre trying to raise your — the poor population out of povert...

National party, and is the presidents right—hand adviser on climate change. he recently launched a climate prosperity plan to tackle the crippling effects of the climate crisis. professor mohan munasinghe is an eminent sri lankan climate scientist. he was vice—chair of the un international panel on climate change when, as an institution, it was awarded the 2007 nobel peace prize with al gore for efforts to combat climate change. and hemantha withanage is chair of friends of the earth interna...

998 million by now. so theres no money coming l from the developed countries. even if we are planning to get some money from the loss i and damage money, its not going to come sooner. - but this is something very, very urgent. . 0k. all right. i mean, there is going to be a lot of competition for limited funds. exactly. so, basically, what hemanthas saying, professor munasinghe, is talking about accountability of these funds if they came to sri lanka is a bit of an epidemic question, cos you don...

In this field. rohan, your question, please. thank you. my question is — climate is a science, so are we really using science, including the technologies to combat climate change ? thank you. thank you very much. all right. professor munasinghe, why dont you kick off on the question about the allocation of land for food production, because obviously, theres a lot of food insecurity in the country at the moment. it reinforces the point i started with that sustainable development and climate sol...

And the government has been working with the private sector very closely, and one way is also to bring in investments, as well as to predict the environment through these investments. professor munasinghe, perhaps this issue of sustainable tourism, private sectors involved in that. a lot of people depend on tourism for their livelihood here in sri lanka. you want to say to everybody, "come and visit the country"? but this engagement with the private sector is critical? yes, the question is, is t...