Forum: sustainable dev. needs cooperation
Since Belize participated in the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment has been holding public meetings to review, prepare, and eventually implement the national action plan. According to Patricia Mendoza, the ministry’s Chief Executive Officer, a commitment to coordination is the key to progress.
Patricia Mendoza, C.E.O., Min. of Natural Resources
“We cannot go any forward with the matter of sustainable development unless everyone is aboard. It’s a tripartite approach to development, it requires all the sectors that have to do with environment, social and economic development to be going along on the same pace and pursuing the same goals.”
“Commitments were made in the areas of land resource management, there is a chapter on small island developing states, there is chapter on, or there is a commitment on energy, countries were pushing for sustainable energy. So you know, the commitments are all around, it is a multilateral arrangement and everybody is looking for something.”
“What we hope to get out of today’s forum is that that light bulb is going to go on. We have had it before, we have had a very good forum looking at the report itself, and more and more entities or sectors that feel as if they have no stake in sustainable development, but who do really have a stake. Because it is, as I said, interdisciplinary that those sector will see where their role can be fulfilled.”
The forum took place at the Biltmore in Belize City.
