Along the way he tried to 'engage with sustainable initiatives, companies and organisations to highlight the environmental challenges in each respective country and promote key solutions'.

The company works with other local businesses on environmental and sustainable initiatives such as collaborative recycling collection schemes which save on resources for transport and collection.

Universities participating in sustainable initiatives, like constructing green buildings, will attract more highly qualified students.

With the river being dredged, shanty towns being relocated away from the river, and other environmentally sustainable initiatives, these are now less of a problem.

Sustainable initiatives include reusing gray water collected from the surrounding buildings in the irrigation of the park as well as the selection of sustainable construction materials.