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Author: Ranil Senanayake

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Colombo, Development, Environment, Politics and Governance

Development or Survival? Why We Need Trees

Sri Lanka’s country statement to the 21st Conference of the Parties (known as COP21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris in 2015 stated, “We are aware that…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 08/22/202108/31/2021
Colombo, Development, Environment

Development or Survival? Out of Balance

Sri Lanka’s country statement to the 21st Conference of the Parties (known as COP21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris in 2015 stated, “We are aware…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 08/21/202108/31/2021
Colombo, Development, Environment

Development or Survival? The Heat is Killing

In 1979 an official communique displayed in the news media proclaimed, “No oil means no development and less oil less development. It is oil that keeps the wheels of development moving.” But…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 08/20/202108/31/2021
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Development or Survival? The Lessons Not Learnt

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of madness. So I venture again into the realm of madness and once more try to…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 08/19/202108/31/2021
Development, Environment, Issues

Blue Sky Mining

“We are aware of the great difference in carbon dioxide that is emitted from biological sources and carbon dioxide emitted from fossil sources. One has sequestered rates measured in thousands of years…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 07/04/201707/04/2017
Environment, Issues, Long Reads

Addressing Climate Change: COP21 and Sri Lanka

Featured image courtesy EPA The COP on climate change in Paris saw Sri Lanka make pledges on the global stage, that we will be a responsible nation when it came to the…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 01/06/201601/08/2016
Colombo, Environment

A tree does not, a forest make

Today  September 21st has been declared the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures , people around the world will come out, write or otherwise question the wisdom of creating tree monocultures…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 09/21/201509/20/2015
Colombo, Development, Economy

Those Killer Robots

The word ‘Robot’ to signify a self-aware machine with the capacity to destroy humans was first coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek in his play Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR)…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 09/01/2015
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment

On Creating Our Future

Photo via #happysrilankans We have emerged, as a nation that is maturing politically and can determine its future in a participatory, democratic manner. Now that the process of lying out of our…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 08/24/201508/23/2015
Colombo, Development, Environment

THE THREAT TO LIFE

Image via 350 dot org It is very gratifying to see Pope Francis declare in his encyclical that, in terms of the Earth,  “We have grown up thinking that we were her…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 06/22/2015
Colombo, Development, Politics and Governance

A Port City or a Garden City for Colombo?

The call for full transparency regarding the negotiations that led to the Port City must be provided to the public, however the deliberations and resolution at a political level will take a…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 04/18/2015
Colombo, Development, Foreign Relations, Politics and Governance

Sovereignty and Colombo Port City

Image courtesy Yamu Throughout the world, the owning or holding of and that belongs to another sovereign nation, termed “territories held” have recently been largely returned. The to China in 1999. The notable…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 03/16/2015
Colombo, Development, Politics and Governance

Considerations for the Port City

Image courtesy Yamu It is heartening to see our Government standing up for the rule of law and the protection of our rights and health in the face of corrupt deals made my…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 03/09/2015
Colombo, Development, Environment, Politics and Governance

Open Letter to the Government of Sri Lanka: On the Port City Review

Image courtesy Yamu Prime Minister Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe Minister Hon. Rajitha Senaratne Minister Hon Lakshman Kiriella Dear Sirs, On the Port City Review I am writing this open letter to you all…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 02/18/2015
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Who rules?

Image courtesy Yamu The media of the 13th Friday had two very different statements on the fate of the ‘Port City “ project. The Daily Mirror reports The Government of Sri Lanka…

Ranil Senanayake Ranil Senanayake on 02/16/201502/18/2015

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