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What gives me hope: Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

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January 25, 2023

Environmental challenges are a major cause of concern. Can efforts to address them be a source of hope?

For Global Environment Facility CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, the goal of healthier landscapes, seascapes, cities, and villages is within reach – but will require persistence and endurance.

“The knowledge and the capacities are there,” he said.

“We need to go from this irrational economic system that aims for unlimited growth without recognizing planetary boundaries into a circular economy. That won’t happen from one year to another year. It will take us a decade.”

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