Gustavo Manrique on Ecuador’s Biodiversity
Americas Now • 11m
“A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges.” That is the theme for this year’s UNGA 77 th meeting. That means that there are challenges and solutions linked in to each other. This is why Americas Now anchor, Elaine Reyes, met with the minister of environment of Ecuador, to find out how to balance development with environment sustainability or oil production with alternative energy.
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