Media Advisory - Sargassum Conference: Grenada

The fight against the influxes of sargassum kicks off tomorrow! The Conference will drive conversations to transform Sargassum from costly problem into a valuable resource.

WHAT: 2ND EU-CARIBBEAN GLOBAL GATEWAY CONFERENCE ON SARGASSUM

Theme: ‘Turning the Tide: Sustainable Practices and Economic Opportunities for Sargassum in the Caribbean Basin’

WHO:

  • Prime Minister of Grenada the Honourable Dickon Mitchell and other Ministers of the Government of Grenada,
  • Hon Kerryne James, Minister for Climate Resilience, the Environment and Renewable Energy
  • Mr Felix Fernandez-Shaw - Director, European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships
  • Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

WHEN: 1st and 2nd October, 2024

WHERE: Radisson Grenada Beach Resort

WHY: ​ Day 1 kicks off with high-level addresses by the dignitaries noted above. The ​ session will comprise of a series of breakout panel sessions that focus on Unlocking the Potential of Sargassum, Creating Enabling Environments though strategies and National policies, data-driven approaches to collection and forecasting and finally, economic and business models around a sustainable sargassum value chain. ​

The agenda for both days can be found at https://sargassumconference.eu/.

This event will host over 300 participants and bring together Ministers and public authorities from Caribbean and Latin American countries and European Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions, as well as the private sector financing institutions, scientific community, and non/governmental organizations. It will connect the different actors to identify opportunities for investments and partnerships to support public initiative and commercial operations targeting the different stages of a Sargassum value chain.

This conference is an initiative under Global Gateway, the European Union’s strategy to boost investments that generate smart, clean and secure value chains across the world.

HOW: For interviews or additional information please email media@oecs.int, or call 1758-455-6327.

To register your interest in attending, please email ​ director-gis@gov.gd.

Danny Moonie

Communications / Knowledge Management Specialist, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

OECS Communications Unit

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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