The second EU-Caribbean International Gateway Convention on Sargassum takes place on October 1-2 on the Radisson Grenada Seaside Resort.
The Convention is an initiative geared toward addressing the rising environmental and socio-economic impression of sargassum seaweed throughout the Caribbean Basin. It additionally seeks to construct regional capability, entice funding, and promote innovation to rework this environmental problem into sustainable financial alternatives.
The Convention is being held because the Caribbean area continues to grapple with unprecedented quantities of sargassum washing ashore, impacting seashores, disrupting marine ecosystems, and threatening key financial sectors, notably tourism and fisheries.
Sargassum influxes have far-reaching penalties for the area’s coastal economies and communities. This convention will provide an distinctive platform for fostering dialogue, mobilizing motion, and securing funding in sustainable options.
The occasion is ready to draw over 200 regional and worldwide stakeholders, together with the Prime Minister and Ministers of the Authorities of Grenada, policymakers, scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and personal sector individuals, to deal with one of the crucial urgent environmental challenges dealing with the Caribbean and Latin America – the recurring influxes of sargassum.
In line with Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, “The sargassum difficulty impacts all of us within the area. This convention is a pivotal second for us to come back collectively as Caribbean nations and key companions to seek out options that flip this environmental problem right into a supply of financial alternative, whereas safeguarding our coastlines and livelihoods.”
Dealing with an identical problem with invasive seaweed species in Europe, the European Union, along with its Member States recognise the significance of native, regional and worldwide partnerships within the struggle towards the overgrowth of Sargassum. By its International Gateway Funding Agenda (GGIA), the EU, a associate within the Sargassum Convention, seeks to boost funding within the Caribbean, with sargassum as one of many priorities.
The Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS), an occasion associate, welcomes this initiative with the EU, a long-standing and dedicated worldwide associate to proceed the drive in direction of discovering options to this ever-increasing drawback and to implement joint methods.
Beneath the theme, ‘Turning the Tide: Sustainable Practices and Financial Alternatives for Sargassum within the Caribbean Basin,’ key Audio system on the occasion will embrace the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell; Kerryne James, Grenada’s Minister for Local weather Resilience, the Setting and Renewable Vitality; Felix Fernandez-Shaw, Director on the European Fee’s, Directorate-Normal for Worldwide Partnerships; and Dr. Didacus Jules, Director Normal of the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS), together with representatives from public authorities throughout the Wider Caribbean Basin.
