Sunday, September 14, 2008

Chamber of Commerce partners IUCN

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) held their first Business Leaders Forum aimed at “Inspiring and involving high potential business leaders in ecosystem and biodiversity conservation.”

The first in the series of lectures were delivered on September 10th at the Trans Asia Hotel by Chairman Sri Lanka Tourism Renton de Alwis titled “ Climate Change and Tourism: Sri Lanka’s response”. Among the other speakers were Dr. Ranjith Mahindapala, Country Director, IUCN, Dr. Shirani Yasaratne, Regional Director, Business for Nature Project, IUCN and Prema Cooray, CEO / Secretary General of the CCC. The event was attended by key business leaders.

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