Uchita de Zoysa is Managing Director of D&D Strategic Solutions (Private) Limited, a CSR and cause based strategic communications agency, and the Chairman of Global Sustainability Solutions, a platform of profit making and non-profit organizations from across the world. A leading international voice in the global sustainability movement, Uchita who was born in Brazil has been from Sri Lanka for the past two decades and has experience working with large companies, governments, NGOs and international agencies and people at the grassroots. Uchita commenced his professional life in 1987 as an investigative environmental journalist. In 1991 he created and lead a large environment & development NGO coalition in Sri Lanka and edited the countries first Citizens’ Report on Environment & Development and presented it to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Uchita was a member of the International NGO Steering Committee of the Earth Summit which organized the Global Forum. In 2004 he was appointed UNEP as head of the Asian programme, and conducted a regional review in 11 Asian countries for a large project called “Sustainable Consumption Asia”. He is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Environment and Development and Chairman of the sustainability solutions network called Global Sustainability Solutions, and has traveled widely across the world as a speaker at over a hundred UN and other international summits, conferences and workshops. Currently he serves on the National Advisory Committee on Climate Change, and is engaged in developing and implementing CSR projects and sustainability plans for corporate and international organizations especially in the Asia Pacific region. Uchita is a strong advocate for creating a better world. (Contact: uchita@sltnet.lk , website: www.glossolutions.com)

COPENHAGEN ACCORD : A Big Climate Scam
By Uchita de Zoysa
Posted in Views & Interviews on 23 December 2009
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I simply have to say …. I warned and I said this would be the outcome. Copenhagen Failed! Do not let a political scam “Copenhagen Accord’ fool you. It is just another self-saving swindle by [...]

Climate Sustainability Platform held in Malaysia Challenges the Current Climate Negotiations
By Uchita de Zoysa
Posted in News on 2 September 2009
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A Climate Sustainability Training Workshop and the 1st Climate Sustainability PLATFORM meeting in Malaysia was conducted on 27th August 2008 in Petaling Jaya by Mr. Uchita de Zoysa of the Centre for Environment Development. The [...]

The Role of Strategic CSR in a post-war development of Sri Lanka
By Uchita de Zoysa
Posted in Views & Interviews on 19 June 2009
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What is the post-war development challenge we face in Sri Lanka?
Now that the war has ended, my fears are sifting towards a potential rush towards a visionless unsustainable development process that may take [...]