Climate change, the environment and the survivability of small island states like Grenada and other OECS countries take centre stage at this year’s Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture (SANML) organised by the Grenada Bar Association.
The landmark 20th SANML takes place at the Grenada Trade Centre on Thursday, 28 November 2024 and will be delivered by Climate Change Envoy and economist Dr Linus Spencer Thomas. The lecture begins at 6:30 pm.
Just back from the 11–22 November COP29 International Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, Dr Spencer Thomas will deliver on the topic “Climate Change and the Environment: Will Small Island States survive.”
One of the areas of focus of the COP29 Summit was how much money richer developed countries should provide poorer developing countries to help them fight climate change. Grenada has felt the brunt of the climate change crisis this year with the devastating passage of Hurricane Beryl in July — ravaging Carriacou, Petite Martinique and northern Grenada — and destructive flooding and landslides caused by consistent heavy rainfall in November.
In Grenada, climate change is real.
Dr Spencer Thomas has over 25 years of experience in international diplomacy in the areas of climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development. In 2008 he was appointed as Grenada’s Ambassador and Special Envoy for Multilateral Environmental Agreements in 2008 and the country’s lead negotiator for climate change and biodiversity.
Dr Spencer has been a key advocate on issues relating to Small Island Developing States within the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and other biodiversity-related conventions.
Launched in 1996, the SANML is the premier public education event of the Grenada Bar Association. The lecture series was named after Sir Archibald Nedd, Chief Justice of Grenada’s Supreme Court from 1979–1986. The SANML is the longest-running lecture series by any Bar Association in the Commonwealth.
Dame Janice Periera, then Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) and Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell delivered the 2022 and 2023 lectures respectively.
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