We are children of Mother Earth.
Today people are destroying the world.
Water, Air, Soil around us is being polluted.
Trees are felled and animals are being killed.
Wars fought and people being are killed.
We want to ensure that our future is secured!
We want to preserve earth for all beings to live!
We want our future to be in a Better World!
A Better World is possible!
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Global Sustainability Solutions: Partnerships for a Better World
Global Sustainability Solutions is an evolving global partnership for sustainable solutions that integrates commercial and non-commercial organizations to bring out the collective strength to achieve a better and Sustainable World. It’s a multi-disciplinary partnership including business organizations, non-governmental organizations, research organizations, media agencies and other organizations that can strengthen the movement to create a better world. Our experience in sustainabilty and social responsibility programmes extends from the days of the Earth Summit (UNCED 1992). The team is lead by Uchita de Zoysa, an internationally known environmentalist, sustainable development expert, civil society leader and social entrepreneur. The different activities brings together a network of expertise in organizations and individuals that excel in CSR, PR, communications, marketing, engineering, law, education, health, policy, governance, politics, etc. Our partners in delivering environmental & social responsibility projects range from United Nations Agencies, International & Bilateral Organizations, Multinational – National & Local Business, Industries, Civil Society Groups, and also Governments. Our aim is a better world and our strategies are based on creating sustainable futures for all. Our strength lies in our expertise, experience, networking, contacts, innovation, creativity and commitment. Most importantly our compassion for society, passion for social responsibility, and commitment to environmental, economic & social - sustainable development – is our primary motivator. Our way of achieving CSR is through building strategic partnerships for better and sustainable futures.
Uchita de Zoysa is an internationally acclaimed thinker, writer and speaker who is a frontline leader in mobilizing civil society and strategist for shaping policy for the global sustainability movement. He is the co-author of the famous “Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption” and author of several books including the “Asian Review on Sustainable Consumption”.
In 1991 he created and lead the then largest environment & development NGO coalition in Sri Lanka called the “Public Campaign on Environment & Development”. This gave him the opportunity to conduct a large public hearing process in Sri Lanka and edit the country’s first ever “Citizens' Report on Environment & Development”. The report was presented to the UNCED in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and he also represented South Asian civil society in the International NGO Forum Steering Committee for UNCED.
During the past two decades, he has traveled widely across the world contributing to the largest United Nations global conferences such as the Earth Summit (1992 in Rio de Janeiro), World Summit for Social Development (1995 in Copenhagen) and World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002 in Johannesburg) and over a hundred of other important international conferences.
He recently served as an Advisory Board Member and Head of Asian Review on Sustainable Consumption for “SC.Asia” a project coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme, and was an editorial member of UNEP's "Advancing Sustainable Consumption in Asia: A Guidance Manual”. Currently, he is a member of the SPACES International Working Group, and the SCORE Scientific Advisory Board.
Uchita is the Executive Director the Sri Lankan NGO “Centre for Environment & Development” and Managing Director of “D&D Strategic Solutions” an integrated communications agency specializing in CSR and sustainability solutions. He is creator and moderator of the “Global Peoples’ Sustainability Dialogue” and currently a member of the high level “National Advisory Committee on Climate Change” in Sri Lanka.
He lives and works towards creating a better, equitable and sustainable world!
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