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Who are good, and to give you an example, taking on military expenditures, $2 trillion, that is the bad private sector which is making huge profits on armaments, but they are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. nobody challenges the military in any country saying, "your greenhouse gas emissions are high. "reduce it." but they will go after the small person. thank you. applause hemantha, did you want to respond on the private sector? we say, roles for business, rights for people. - we say, as the professor mentioned, we say that i the private sector is the - problem because they are not r...

Countries to put money. and, of course, although ini copenhagen, the countries — developed countries agreed . to put us$100 billion annually, that money didn't come, i still the green climate fund is only having 11.9 billion. so, adaptation fund, $800... $998 million by now. so there's no money coming l from the developed countries. even if we are planning to get some money from the loss i and damage money, it's 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, wha...

Answering questions from my audience here. let me tell you who's in the hot seat for this edition of global questions. ruwan wijewardene is deputy leader of the united national party, and is the president's 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 ch...

Absolutely. we are engaging with the private sector as well, and it is absolutely essential that we do, because when we do engage with the private sector, they bring in innovation, they bring in technology, and of course they're more efficient than working with the government. but it is essential, 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 de...

Yes, the question is, is the private sector part of the problem or is it part of the solution? i'd like to believe the second, that we have to work towards it, because the private sector is very big, and you cannot exclude that, so some of them are good and some of them are not. you have to work with those who are good, and to give you an example, taking on military expenditures, $2 trillion, that is the bad private sector which is making huge profits on armaments, but they are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. nobody challenges the military in any country saying, "your greenhouse gas ...