Devon Warner, Chairman of the Barbuda Council, to speak at VIS2024 - 10,000 attendees expected at summit
The Virtual Island Summit has become one of the largest knowledge-sharing opportunities for island stakeholders, with the free zero-carbon event promoting public participation and understanding of sustainable island solutions, while also providing access to expert speakers from civil society, academia, the private sector as well as government officials.
The Island Innovation team is delighted to have the Chairman of the Barbuda Council, Devon Warner, join us during the event. He stated “Barbuda has a story, a story that I think has not been told, especially since [Hurricane] Irma with regards to certain developments that are taking place in Barbuda, the involvement of the Barbudan people, what Barbudans consider to be the worst case scenario with regards to disaster capitalism.”
By land, sea and sky, Māori are using Indigenous knowledge to combat climate change
Three friends are clearing out the river, which has become stagnant and full of toxic algae blooms due to invasive weeds and broken branches. It’s important work, says Parkin-Rae, because clean waterways allow native plants and wildlife to flourish.
They are among a growing community of Māori who are working to counter the catastrophic effects of climate change, which is eroding the country’s shores, destroying its biodiversity, fueling extreme weather and threatening to displace entire communities.
Atlantic Spaceport Consortium to Explore Azores Launch Facility
The Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC) was founded in 2019 with the aim of building a commercial spaceport on the island of Santa Maria, approximately 1,500 kilometres off the coast of the Portuguese mainland.
‘Burden’ helps save Scottish island’s pharmacy amid housing crisis
Julie Walker, Mull’s only pharmacist, sold her business and left the island but the sale fell through and she had to return to Mull to continue the business – but found herself homeless. However, thanks to the generosity of local doctor Jennifer Jack, who had been left a surplus property after the death of her mother, the future of both the pharmacist and her Tobermory pharmacy has been secured.
The University of Prince Edward Island, University of Aruba and the Sophia University (Tokyo) invites you to their 3rd international conference on Small Island States (SIS) and Subnational Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) in June 2025.
Before the conference, they are inviting researchers, practitioners, artists, and communities across disciplines to explore island imaginaries and interdisciplinarities in the context of climate change, and to submit an abstract related to one or more of the sub-themes (ex: Ocean health and climate change, Environmental law and governance, Climate change communications, The importance of health and well-being, etc).
