Conference Documents
Click on the links below to obtain background and conference documents for the following sessions:
Monday 7 May 2012
Opening Ceremony
Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative
Feature Address by the Honourable Freundel Stuart, QC, MP, Prime Minister of Barbados
SIDS Energy Outlook
Presentation by Joseph Williams, Programme Manager, Energy, CARICOM [...]
Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) – Challenges, Opportunities and Commitments and the Rio+20 Informal Ministerial Meeting in Barbados
May 10th, 2012 
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Comments OffEUCARINET 2012 TRAVEL GRANT SCHEME
May 7th, 2012 Admin: Donna The aim of the Travel Grant Scheme is to promote exchange between Caribbean and European researchers as well as to encourage contacts between research institutions so that they may explore possibilities for joint participation in the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).
The Travel Grant consists of two components:
1. The participation [...]
Posted in Articles, Carbon Market, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management, Official Blog, Other Opportunity Comments OffGreen energy in Caribbean discussed at Guyana forum
April 22nd, 2012 Admin: Donna True to its efforts to preserve the natural and human resources in the Caribbean region, the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s 2012 Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development held its first energy forum last week in Guyana.
The session, part of the CTO’s 13th annual conference, featured experts examining and discussing the region’s many possibilities for utilizing reusable [...]
The growing energy needs of the world
April 1st, 2012 Admin: Donna Career & Education shares with you this week an article from meteorologist Romayne Robinson following World Meteorology Day on March 23, which was being celebrated under the theme: ‘Powering our future with weather, climate and water’.
THE growing energy needs of the world are of great concern to many industry players, as well as financial entities [...]
Dominica aims to be carbon neutral and climate change resilient
March 26th, 2012 Admin: Donna The Government of Dominica has prepared a 10 year strategy for climate resilience, and is now hoping to secure funding for its implementation. Peter Richards reports for IPS News:
Dominica presented its “2012-2020 Low Carbon Climate Resilient Development Strategy” to donors including the World Bank on Wednesday in a bid to gain wider access to funding and [...]
PROMOTING Energy Efficiency (presentations)
February 28th, 2012 Admin: Donna Some of the presentations included:
Andre Escalante, Managing Director, Energy Dynamics
Donnie Boodlal & Adel Al Taweel, Natural Gas Research Inst. of the Americas, NGIA; Researcher University of Trinidad and Tobago.
Lisa Ann Fraser, Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago
Energy Dynamics Ltd
Merlyn Rennie‐Browne, Team Leader, Business Development, National Energy Corporation
Keron Niles – University of Otago,Dunedin, [...]
BRIEFING NOTE: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Sustainable Energy Initiative – SIDS DOCK
February 27th, 2012 Admin: Donna
SIDS DOCK is a SIDS–SIDS institutional mechanism established to facilitate the development of a sustainable energy economy within the small island developing states. The ultimate goal of SIDS DOCK is to increase energy efficiency by 25 percent (2005 baseline) and to generate a minimum of 50 percent of electric power from renewable sources and a [...]
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February 2nd, 2012 Admin: Donna “It was the voice of the Caribbean that changed the world at Durban,” says John Ashton, the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change. The Caribbean, perhaps more than any region in the world, faces an existential threat from global climate change. It is that threat which has spurred the region to band together and [...]
Seminars to Highlight Energy Efficiency in Building Codes
January 16th, 2012 Admin: Tricia The Virgin Islands Energy Office staff was on hand both days of the Bordeaux Fair, Jan. 15 and 16, 2012. The staff made available information on energy efficiency and alternative energy to the thousands of people who attended the annual fair in the hills on the west end of St. Thomas. The fair is sponsored [...]
Progressing towards post-2012 carbon marketsBrand
January 12th, 2012 Admin: Donna The transition towards low carbon development and more broad based green growth are vital to addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing the global community, such as global warming and unsustainable use of natural resources. Confronting the end of the first Kyoto Commitment period in 2012 with no agreed outcome for global cooperation on [...]
