Climate Compliance Conference 2013 Jul. 2014 | Page 4

The St. Vincent Climate Compliance Conference 2012-2021 With a ten years’ perspective, Richmond Vale Academy launched its St. Vincent Climate Compliance Conference 2012-2021, aiming at forming the future of St. Vincent into that of being a climate compliant country, one of the first of its kind globally. With an eye to the planetary boundary concept, counting nine different such planetary boundaries, mankind is now technologically able to study Earth systems at a planetary level and establish the environmental thresholds within which mankind must keep the Globe in order to keep its systems functioning and in balance. Never before has so much scientific data, books and other publications been available to people like you and we, and never before has there been such a broadly based consensus among all but ardent deniers that Global Warming and Climate Change is real and that also actions by man are causing the Earth system to collapse, causing irreversible damage to the Earth and live as we know it. It is with science as a foundation and an eye to these nine planetary boundaries the Climate Compliance Conference has been born, as a way for we, the ordinary people, to take concrete actions and at the same time establish knowledge that will allow for actions in a new kind of environmental movement, based locally in St. Vincent and shown globally for others to follow.