Young Grenadians and other professionals in key sectors will benefit from training on the international climate change context and the importance of the issues to the nation.
Through climate diplomacy funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, the training will be done under the Improving National Capacity for Sustained Engagement and Action on Climate Change (SEAC) project as part of efforts to assist the Government and people of Grenada to better understand why dealing with climate change is important, and how attitudes and behaviours will need to change to prepare for and cope with current and expected changes.
The SEAC project will be run by the Caribbean Youth Environment Network in Grenada (CYEN Grenada) in close partnership with the Ministry for Climate Resilience and the Environment. Recognising the need to include more stakeholders in the country’s efforts to tackle climate change, National Coordinator of CYEN Grenada, Ms Kerricia Hobson, described the reason behind the project. “We are hoping that we can motivate persons, especially young people, as we equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to advocate in the country for greater local action,” she said, “and that they will then be able to identify and implement solutions here at home but also be able to express national needs in regional and international spaces.”
For small islands like Grenada that already face development challenges because of little capacity and high public debt, the added pressures from stronger and more frequent hurricanes; severe changes in the amounts of rain; hotter days and hotter nights; and eroding coastlines hurt the economy and health and well-being of communities. Pointing out the necessity for urgent action and ambition to deal with the climate emergency, Minister Simon Stiell welcomed the project saying, “we are at a critical moment in our history where we realise the existential threat posed by climate change to our very lives and livelihoods. Even with the worsening impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in our communities and the immediate need to deal with the health concerns of our people, our future survival as a country will depend even more on how we can adapt to a rapidly shifting climate and how well we can petition the global society to act. Building local capacity in and out of Grenada is essential to our success.”
As part of activities, CYEN Grenada will hold a workshop in early October to instruct interested members of the public on the science of climate change and on the global negotiations process. Priority will be given to young people 15–35 years. A series of educational tools such as infographics, videos, and a simple guide to understanding and participating in climate discussions will also be prepared. Speaking on the UK government’s support for this initiative, Resident Commissioner in Grenada Wendy Freeman explained, “The British High Commission in St George’s is very pleased to be supporting the CYEN and Ministry for Climate Resilience and the Environment through this project. In November, the UK is hosting the next Climate Conference, COP26. In the run-up to this, I have been very impressed by the level of commitment in Grenada to tackling climate change from discussions with Government and civil society. This project will further develop understanding of the issue and its impacts among young people and their communities and to help them advocate for local action and identify solutions.”
CYEN Grenada is part of a wider regional network that works to strengthen the meaningful involvement of young citizens in environment and sustainable development matters through education, participation, and engagement. Over the years the organisation has spearheaded several projects, activities, and events to raise national awareness on issues and provided a platform for youth voices to be heard.
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Kesri & Rebecca WALOB. Donald Trump makes more sense than you.
Kesri and Rebecca are you really Grenadians or foreign operatives trying to cause disruption? Find out how climate change has already affected our country. Educate yourself. Not via social media though.
Oh and by the way the earth is not flat.
Bb, I thought it was Global Climate Change, not Grenada Climate Change. This is British Funded Propaganda in Grenada, so it fully deserves public scrutiny despite the fact some elites and a few individuals are making money out of the Climate Change scam.
But as you brought it up where is the evidence that CO2 emissions are damaging Grenada.?
If its such a major Crisis where is the evidence?
On Earth, CO2 have been as high as over 30,000ppm historically. When CO2 gets lower than 150ppm, no plant life can exist. Just because CO2 has risen from 280ppm since the 1700s an the Industrial Age to 417ppm today, is still not significant in the Natural fluctuations of CO2.
Added to that in the past 4.7 billion years of data analysis of Carbon and Temperature, there is no evidence that they are related to each and in fact often track in totally opposite directions for millions of years.
So despite the Global Warming hysteria there is no evidence that CO2 causes a rise in Temperature.
Many Greenhouses inject CO2 between 1200-1800ppm to increase growth and yeild. So 417ppm is not the optimum Carbon we need to grow food or have abundant Plant life on Earth.
Volcanoes and the Oceans are the greatest source of CO2 what we contribute to the Atmosphere as humans is so tiny it is insignificant. If you care about Earth Science that is the reality.
https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/
Climate change is not a hoax it’s real.
But we all have to take the blame for this every single one of us and all the big countries including the UK where I live the politicians in the UK around the world waiting too long this world has been screwed up for centuries and now now you can see what’s happening all around the world so all I can say to the politicians all around the world and everybody else who lives in the world wake up climate change is for real and I believe there is a disaster waiting to happen the British politicians as you rightly say a morons and I’m British but we all have to to get real and help this world to survive we all have to do a bit so any help I’m any country re re2 the smaller countries is appreciated so it will need to take part in this situation and try why to make this world a safer place for our children children’s children God made this world man the screwed it all up but we can still get this world back it’s not too late but it might be by God bless us all
Ja you are always looking to blame someone…..when in reality there is nothing we tiny humans can ever do that will significantly alter the Earths Temperature or its Carbon levels….which are at Geological historic low levels of Carbon.
How will we grow food to feed the planet if Carbon is reduced even lower?
I believe, the UK had to shut down food and fertilizer industry recently because they dont have enough man made CO2 in August and September. Energy companies are goung bust in the UK.
The reality is that there is not enough natural CO2, we actually have make CO2 to produce food. Carbon is a good thing despite what the brainwashed Greta Thunbergs of the world may think.
If all goes to plan, I hope to be in London soon to see the fruit of Bojos zero carbon pokicies that have seen endless speed bumps and funneled traffic grid lock.
The manipulation of fuel supply that are causing shortage and fights at Petrol stations. Hardly a zero carbon policy success.
These political Climate Change shenanigans are not helping planet Earth, its just a lot of blah blah blah as Greta herself pointed out recently, that is making life more unpleasant.
I used to enjoy driving and site seeing in London but after then Mayor and now PM Bojo Green Psychosis, London is an absolute nightmare to visit.
I think people have to pay a special chatge to drive inside London zones, more madness.
So I now do my best to aviod London and stick to the beautiful English countryside free of political meddling…..for now.
Greta Thunberg the Cabal’s puppet is given word wide exposure to push this fake global warming agenda .
Hey Kesri. How much of a rise in sea level will it take to put Grande Anse under water??? Where will the Grenadian economy be if that happens???
No change in industrial practices = global warming = melting polar ice caps = rising sea level = Financial ruin for Grenada.
Comprenez vous???
Thought not….
Albert for Royalty you have a pretty weak heart….do you really think the sea level will rise and flood Grand Anse in our life time? Surely you jest.
We are living in an Ice Age but we need more Carbon to warm the planet in order to gain morr land and live more comfortable lives and grow more food.
Destroying our Energy and Industry to supposedly reduce Carbon Emmission and Cool the Planet is a childish joke and a UN scam.
Albert Carbon it at an all time low in the history of Earth Climate and based of all the Ice Core and Tree rings samples, Carbon have no relationship with Temperature. Check it yourself.
Yes, the Climate does change but there is nothing we can do
as humans (0.03% manmade Carbon) to affect Global Temperature, other than build better dwellings and learn to live comfortable with what ever phase Earth decides to go through.
I love the Earth and Nature, more carbon means more trees and food. Bring on the Carbon.
As if the British have not brainwashed enough of their own people about the fake man made global warming……now BoJo want to brainwash Grenadians on how ti wreck their country.
British politicians have wrecked the UK economy where domestic Oil, Coal and Gas that once provided two thirds of their energy needs, slashed to less than 10% for zero carbon bullshit. And that was before the Covid Scam hit.
Trillions spent on wind mills and solar farms that cant provide enough electricity on a warm summer day without the grid crashing, not enough Natural Gas for heating and cooking, unless the Russians indirectly supply them, and not enough refined petrol resulting in shortages with fights breaking out at the pumps as they fill up.
There is no evidence that Hurricanes are stronger and nights are hotter in Grenada or anywhere else other than normal weather fluctuations.
We are in the middle of the Covid Scam but the UN Elites can’t wait to get back to the Global Warming Climate Change Scam.
I believe the next big scam on the horizon is the climate change hoax. In the near future “Global Warming” lockdowns worldwide will take place to protect the planet. The same criminals preaching Global Warming like flying their gas guzzling private airplanes all over the world.
Yep Rebecca, different day, more Globalist UN crap that transfer money from the poor to a rich elite.
Global Warming, Covid 19, are all tools off the Globalist Great Reset and Build Back Better Agenda.
But sssshhhhh …..its all conspiracy nutjob theory. Hahaha.
Even heard some useful idiot politicians proposing a Cashless society for Grenada recently and running the UN WEF playbook that aim to reduce us to digital slaves.
But not all of us are drinking their koolaide.