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[MEDIA ALERT] Blue Growth & Risk Management through Earth Observation Workshop

[MEDIA ALERT] Blue Growth & Risk Management through Earth Observation Workshop

Press invitation

Blue Growth & Risk Management through Earth Observation Workshop 

WHAT
The workshop will use examples from Fisheries and Aquaculture developments, Maritime monitoring control and surveillance, Sargassum issues and opportunities, and Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation measures, to illustrate the opportunity and potential for Earth Observation to support development of maritime economies and adaption to risk and vulnerability from climate change, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.

These thematic focuses will be used to develop a series of participant-led recommendations for further capacity and capability development to support the deployment of earth observation as a management tool across the Caribbean, recognising the potential role of member states, organisations such as the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, international financing institutions, Space Agencies and local innovators. The attached agenda provides more detail.

WHO
Panelists include:

  • Ms. Raisa Spencer, Ministry of Health and the Environment - Antigua and Barbuda
  • Mr. Julian A. Hughes, Senior GIS Technician Department of Physical Planning - Anguilla
  • Mr. Mervin Hastings, Ag. Deputy Conservation & Fisheries Officer, Ministry of Natural Resources & Labour - British Virgin Islands
  • Mr. Nick LaRocque, Lands & Surveys Division - Commonwealth of Dominica
  • Kenton JK Fletcher, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment - Grenada
  • Mrs. Lavern Ryan, Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Land, Housing and the Environment/Physical Planning Unit/ GIS Centre - Montserrat
  • Mr. Joshua Salters, Department of Environment - St. Kitts and Nevis
  • Mr. David Alphonse, Department of Physical Planning - St. Lucia
  • Erwin Jimenez, Department of the Environment - Belize
  • Ms. Shekira Sealy, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies - University West Indies

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The media houses and the general public

WHEN
The workshop will be held from January 23 to 27, 2018.
The opening ceremony will be held on January 23, 2018 at 8:30 AM

WHERE
Bay Gardens Hotel - Saint-Lucia

MEDIA CONTACTS 
Doris Nol
[email protected]
+1758-285-7399 

Contact us
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Patricia Lewis Environmental Sustainability Cluster, OECS Commission
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Patricia Lewis Environmental Sustainability Cluster, OECS Commission
About The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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