“It is a must to try to achieve minimum equity for the entire global population, because we all have the right to life,”said in statements to ACN Gisela Alonso, president of the Environment Agency (AMA), who runs a network of more than 3000 workers in specialized centers and institutes.

She said that since the UN Conference on Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, “there has been no international action to reverse this situation of accelerated degradation of natural resources that are essential to human life.”

Alonso recalled that the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1969 promoted the sustainable development initiative in another meeting in the Swedish capital.

She explained that her agency, along the Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency pursue the same goals but through different paths: to contribute to the sustainable development of Cubans, on the basis that, unlike many other countries, environmental care is stipulated in the Constitution.

In Alonso´s opinion, the UN multilateral system, despite their conditionings, offers options for cooperation to stop global deforestation, to reduce large areas of pollution and preserving ecosystems and to produce less toxic chemicals.

The expert also expressed confidence that science can help to use bioactive materials and to defend the use of renewable energy

She described climate change as the most acute envionmental problem of this century, the intensification of floods, storms, extreme meteorological events, ice melting, sea level and temperatures rising.

For these reasons, “to bring about change in that regard, it is important to stimulate a transformation of production and consumption patterns, increased efficiency in resource use and modify market mechanisms,” suggested the specialist.

It is inconceivable, she said, that despite the development achieved by men and the accumulated knowledge, selfishness and lack of moral and the ethical concepts are able to create the tensions that the world now lives.

If there is willingness and awareness of such problems, there is science to find solutions, she said and pondered the fact that if there will be anything left after a nuclear confrontation as Commander in Chief Fidel Castro has warned.