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Climate Change and Communities: Building Back Better in a Small and Hurricane-Damaged Economy: Dominica’s Quest to be the World’s First Resilient Nation
Wednesday, November 18 | Time: 1:00 p.m. | Streamed Online
With unique challenges, how can small island nations in the Caribbean and elsewhere address climate adaptation? As many
depict these nations as emblematic of the most vulnerable of all, how have the AOSIS United Nations bargaining group and individual island nations harnessed international attention?
Featuring:
Francine Baron, Acting Director, Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD) and former cabinet member in the Government of Dominica
Emily Wilkinson, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Senior Research Fellow, Global Risks and Resilience and Chief Scientific Adviser, Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica
(CREAD)
Stacy-Ann Robinson, Environmental Studies, Colby College and former Representative of Jamaica in the United Nations General Assembly
Moderated by Dalia Abbas, Department of Environmental Science, American University.
This event is part of the Climate Change and Communities: Lessons from Some of the World’s Most Vulnerable series convened by Todd Eisenstadt, Research Director, Center for Environmental
Policy.
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