What are the key issues we need to really address when managing a sustainable world?
“Asia today has two major sustainability issues,” says Ravi Fernando, CEO of the Sri-Lanka Institute for Nanotechnology (SLINTEC). “One is the shortage of water, and the second is poverty. If we look at poverty - the figures - one in two people in the world earn less than two dollars per day,” he says. “A good percentage of that “below-two-dollar population” is in Asia.”
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