Agenda Day 3 

To address the progressive impacts of climate change, there is an urgent need to adopt innovative approaches that integrate both technology and nature to enhance climate resilience. This session will facilitate discussions led by women in climate tech,  foster mentorship and peer to peer learning and skills to help women and girls as entrepreneurs leverage technology to combat climate change; identify success factors of using technology to create climate ready sustainable businesses and demonstrate how women-led climate tech start-ups with strong social and environmental missions yield “bigger” impacts. 

Special presentations will be made by  International Project Technology Partner(s) & Industry Experts focusing on STEM education and Climate Action through:

• Women in STEM who drive solutions to address climate change and sustainable development.

• Female-led ventures that demonstrate a robust commitment to social and climate responsibility

• Women-led entrepreneurial and gender-aware climate actions enhanced by technology

• Role of technology to elevate climate and entrepreneurial actions for NGOs, Women and Girls

Presenters

• Trish Tierney, Co-Founder and CEO, Women's Alliance for Know (WAKE).

• Diandra Hines, Tech2Empower Advisor.

• Ryane Rollock, Senior Specialist, NIHERST.

• Anuskha Sonai, President, Creative Tech Hub Caribbean.

• Derval Barzey, Founder, Climate Conscious Podcast & Consultancy.

• Rica G., The Golden Griot Solutions.

• Diana S. Mbogo, Managing Director, Millennium Engineers.

• Leneka Terika Rhoden, Founder, iAspire, Climate Change and Renewable Energy Specialist.

Moderator(s):

• Dwayne Gutzmer, CEO, Institute of Law and Economics.

• Nicole Pitter Patterson, Senior Consultant Gender, Trade & Financial Inclusion.

The Escazú Agreement is the first international treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean concerning the rights of access to information about the environment, public participation in environmental decision-making, environmental justice, and a healthy and sustainable environment for current and future generations.

The speakers in this segment will present on the Escazu Agreement and relationship to climate and environmental justice in the Caribbean on matters of human rights and will also speak to growing issues on environmental migration.  They will also demonstrate the importance of regional adoption of this agreement  by all Caribbean Countries in order to: improve collaboration, advance law, policy and governance structures nationally and across the region as well as strengthen collaboration, information, strategies on the growing issue of beach access and related concerns in the Caribbean.

This session will be a conversation with Policy Experts and Beach Access Advocates from Jamaica, Barbados, and Bahamas, focusing on:

• findings from research on Escazu Agreement, its ratification and connection to and environmental migration - a policy brief

• strategies to elevate climate justice in the Caribbean through collaboration; and

• various perspectives and contributing factors that contribute to the growing regional issue on equitable beach access and coastlines

Presenters:

• Hélène Marie-Claire Glenisson, Project Officer on Migration, Environment and Climate Change for the Caribbean, Migration, Environment, Climate Change and Risk Reduction Division, International Organization for Migration

• Dedan Daniel, Chairman, Tobago Reforestation & Watershed Management Program, (TRWRP) Tobago House of Assembly

• Dr. Devon Taylor, Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement (JaBBEM)

• Shylina Lingard, Strategic Management Employee, Association of Indigenous Village Leaders in Suriname

• Artie Dubrie, Coordinator, Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean - Climate Justice

Moderators:

• Talya Mohammed, Regional Project Coord. Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance

• Sean McCoon, Civil Society, Environmental & Youth Empowerment ,Advocate Foreign Affairs and International Relations Expert, T&T CTPP Ambassador- Caribbean Tree Planting Project

• Reinier Taus, CTPP National Coordinator Suriname