Makerere Matters Foundation welcomes the Vice Chancellor’s keynote statement on sustainability and fully commits itself to this important policy issue.
The text, which reproduced, is presented as a Statement of opportunity for investment partnership in the proposed Makerere Africa Institute of Sustainability (MAIoS); a new vehicle for taking Africa into an Ecological Age.
Professor Livingstone Luboobi, The Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, who is also Chairman of Makerere University Private Sector Forum (MUPSF), has expressed concern over the need to redirect efforts into ecological age as a means of taking the world to one planet. In his call for investment partnerships in the proposed Makerere Africa Institute of Sustainability Professor Luboobi states thus:
‘Global warming and adverse climate change…global food crisis leading to food riots, including in Africa… global oil price hikes…water and air pollution…species extinction…famine, etc. These are some of the signs of our fragile planet due to human instigated development leading to environmental degradation’.
For further details please see ‘Focus on Sustainability’ above.
