BANZA April 2016 Issue | Page 58

The reason many environmental projects fail is because they fail to address the socio-economic side of environmental utilisation Human beings We depend on the environment for everything, hence having an understanding of both entrepreneurship and proper environment policies and projects ensures that nothing or no one prospers at the expense of the environment. A mutual beneficiation is a priceless tool for co-existence and sustenance of the world’s resources and future generations. Stakeholders such as the NGOs, private sectors and governments through their key departments entrusted with environment conservation and wild life protection continue to sideline the youth and downplay their role in working together for an environment that will sustain both the present and future generations. We have amazingly talented and academically gifted young people who can contribute immensely to monitoring, conserving, protecting and sustainably managing the environment. World leaders especially those from highly industrialized economies who account for a larger percentage of greenhouse emissions cannot sacrifice and compromise the present for the future by agreeing to international environmental policy ratifications. This stalling failure to agree and compromise is a cause for concern and continued destruction of the environment. 58