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Alan Cooper retweeted
Reports of fish kills in Tobago: Delaford Bay, Roxborough, Lambeau Beach, and Flying Reef. Marine life, including parrotfish, snapper, butterflyfish, trumpetfish, eels, and octopuses, affected.Learn more: ima.gov.tt/2023/11/05/bullet…
#Tobago #MarineLife #FishKill #AlgalBloom #imagovtt
Battling the sargassum threat! Mangroves, crucial for robust coastal ecosystems, are in jeopary. In Petit Trou Lagoon, @UNDPTT and @IMAgovTT conduct a vital assessment. Can innovation be used to address the challenge? UNDP Accelerator Labs #coastalresilience
Alan Cooper retweeted
🤝🚀 Empowering innovation! 🌟
@UNDPTT is excited to team up with #TrinidadandTobago Ministry of Social Development and Family Services to introduce cutting-edge digital tools that support faster, seamless aid for the most vulnerable! 🌐 #CollaborationForInnovation #TechForGood
Alan Cooper retweeted
Echoing calypso legend @DavidRudder, UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres drew from 'Rally Round the West Indies' and declared,
"Our world needs the islands. We need to rally round CARICOM."
His remarks to @CARICOMorg: bit.ly/43axAXx
📷: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Alan Cooper retweeted
Congratulations to CARICOM and Caribbean countries on 50th Anniversary of its creation by the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Challenges to sustainable development and climate crisis renew a mandate of cooperation and working together for People, Planet, Peace, Prosperity and Partnership.
Happy CARICOM Day 🇦🇬🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇿🇩🇲🇬🇩🇬🇾🇭🇹🇯🇲🇲🇸🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇸🇷🇹🇹🇦🇮🇧🇲🇻🇬🇰🇾🇹🇨
#CARICOMAT50 #IAMCARICOM #STRONGERTOGETHER #ONECARIBBEAN #GOLDENJUBILEE #SOLIDFOUNDATION
Alan Cooper retweeted
Seagrasses:
🐠Nurture 20% of the world's largest fisheries
🌊Filter ocean water for corals
💰Support livelihoods
🕊️Provide forage for migrating birds
🌎Store up to 18% of oceanic carbon
unep.org/news-and-stories/st…
#BuildBackBiodiversity #BiodiversityDay
Via @UNEP_AsiaPac
TT Accelerator Lab partnered with GEF SGP to produce a stakeholder-informed systems baseline on reducing waste plastic in Trinidad and Tobago. Our launch is carded for June 14 (fingers crossed), alongside a workshop for 7 grantees on plastic innovation.
Alan Cooper retweeted
Tourism fuels the plastic pollution crisis, with 8 million tonnes entering our oceans every year.
Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, discover how the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative brings the entire sector together to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Alan Cooper retweeted
🚀 Big applause for graduates of Step Up Initiative at the Bethlehem Boys RC School, fueled by @UNDPTT! 🌍 Through the @UNDPAccLabs #Peace #Innovation #Challenge, this project empowers young boys to become civic-minded peace champions.
📺bit.ly/3Mm2lnr
#PeaceBuilding
Tobago-based innovators! You've asked for it, and we listened. Deadline extended to May 21st for submission of project concepts. #tobagosdg #peacebuilding #Sustainability #undptt #pnud #smallislandeconomy #grassrootinnovation #innovation
El Puente ("The Bridge") used the burroquite as cultural expression common to both T&T + Venezuela to combat xenophobia by building intercultural understanding, reviving local culture & teaching migrant kids born here their culture. 🇹🇹 + 🇻🇪 #Peacebuilding #migrant #cultura #paz
🌿Calling all Tobago-based civil society organizations, companies, and individuals! 🚀The Tobago Innovation Challenge is looking for innovative projects that reflect and contribute to the island's motto of "Tobago - Clean, Green, Safe and Serene." #greentobago #communitypower
🌿Calling all Tobago-based civil society organizations, companies, and individuals! 🚀The Tobago Innovation Challenge is looking for innovative projects that reflect and contribute to the island's motto of "Tobago - Clean, Green, Safe and Serene." #greentobago #undptobago
Farming at the prison: largely funded collectively by prison officers and inmates, an example of how agriculture is being used to improve prisoner-inmate relations and rehabilitate inmates while providing them with skills for sustainable livelihoods upon completion of sentence.
Alan Cooper retweeted
The first in our 2023 blog series on climate change from the perspective of Big Ocean States is here! @riadmeddeb @LHildebrandt @DeanMohseen @alberto_cottica @NyandaPN @AlCooper424 @GregTheThinker – at Barbados
The @UNDPAccLabs in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean examined the harsh lived realities Eastern Caribbean SIDS are experiencing due to #climatechange and explored how community solutions can create hope!
Click to read the full blog post: undp.org/barbados/blog/beyon…
Alan Cooper retweeted
Today and every day, commit to taking #ClimateAction!
Here are 8 climate actions you can take for a sustainable world 👇
There is no more time to waste!
#EarthHour
Alan Cooper retweeted
Today the @UNDPTT and the @MDT_TT conducted a national leadership workshop about Global Methodologies for developing a National Digital #Strategy. Senior experts @CalumAH and @rhennis presented.
The UNDP is excited to support Trinidad and Tobago’s #DigitalTransformation journey.
The TT UNDP Peace Innovation Challenge - finding innovative ways to create a more peaceful society. This project focuses on our migrant Venezuelan population.
youtu.be/bF067tHRYqE
The TT UNDP Peace Innovation Challenge - finding innovative ways to create a more peaceful society.
youtu.be/MkMlgdchKug