ENVIRONMENT SPOTLIGHT
Two OECS climate change activists
raise awareness internationally
OECS Media Release
Two young environmental activists
from the OECS earlier this year
participated in the third edition of
the Peace Boat’s Ocean & Climate
Youth Ambassador Programme.
Saint Lucian Jevanic Henry and
Montserratian Ashneil Jeffers have
seized this opportunity to draw
the attention of the international
community to the urgent necessity
to accelerate climate resilience
actions in the countries of the
Eastern Caribbean – which remain
among the most impacted nations
in the world despite being minor
contributors to climate change.
For many years, Henry has been
deeply involved in a series of
initiatives to raise awareness
on environmental issues in his
home country and regionally.
Thanks to funding from the Peace
Boat’s Ocean & Climate Youth
Ambassador Programme and the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean
States (OECS), the 22-year-old
was able to take his message to
the international arena.
Additionally, Jeffers, who has been
engaged in non-governmental
organisations as a volunteer for
many years, also participated
in the programme, thanks to
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funding from the Government of
Montserrat and the Waitt Institute.
Both OECS nationals joined a
group of six youth ambassadors
who represented other Small
Island Developing States (SIDS),
including Fiji, Tuvalu, Palau,
Singapore, Seychelles, and
Trinidad and Tobago. The young
leaders boarded the Peace Boat
on a mission which aimed to
amplify the call for action to
address climate change and ocean
degradation.
“Climate change and ocean
degradation are issues which will
www.slyoumag.com | September-October 2019