Sharing Knowledge For Resilient, Sustainable And Prosperous
Islands Worldwide

The Institute for Small Islands is an independent policy and legal institute, which rests on four pillars: the environment (with a particular focus on climate change), human rights, sustainable development and culture. We look at small islands across the world from an interdisciplinary angle.

We are Future Islands! An active and independent platform with a mission! We want to accelerate the sustainability of the Dutch Caribbean. We do this by developing and sharing knowledge, communicating inspiring examples and hosting events to connect people and organizations. Future Islands is a product of the Sustainable Dutch Caribbean Foundation. We are supported by partners and experts who are passionate about sustainability and innovation. From the 6 islands and the Netherlands content creators are writing and publishing articles on the platform. Furthermore, several business developers are recruiting partners on the islands and in the Netherlands and manage the relations of those partners.

Pacific Venture was created in early 2015. Our mission is to help organizations (and individuals) understand today’s world and tomorrow’s human challenges. We thus support organizations in change by helping them to understand the complexity of our world and of the human being and, on this basis, to develop intentional, open and impactful leadership. Our services are available internationally but mainly focused on Asia and the Pacific. We are able to provide services in both English and French and always operate with awareness of your organization’s cultural environment.

EcoVybz Environmental Creatives is a creative changency focused on building powerful environmental content through storytelling initiatives and developing innovative tools to mobilise youth as strategic agents of change. Specialised in topics such as climate change, water management and ocean conservation EcoVybz also offers consultancy services in the field of environmental research and youth capacity building workshops.

Loop News is the number one source for Caribbean-wide, local and global content. We provide the best coverage of news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, business, community and events. With our dedicated team of journalists working locally in each market, we strive to bring all the breaking and most up-to-date coverage from a team you can trust.

Loop News launched in April 2014 and quickly grew to have teams in six markets across the Caribbean: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Haiti, Cayman and St Lucia. And in 2020 we launched the newest website in the Loop family – Loop Caribbean!

We became the Caribbean’s number one news app in the Google Play store and Apple App store within two months of launch, and with more than 1 million downloads, Loop News is still the number 1 today!

The Pacific Islands Development Forum Le Forum (PIDF), headquartered in Suva, is a regional organization created by the Fijian Government in 2013, following its exclusion from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in 2009.

The PIDF’s main objective is to support sustainable development in Pacific Islands by facilitating:

• The integration of sustainable development’s three pillars (Environmental, Social and Economic) to combine sustained economic growth and the needs of society with environmental resilience.
• The use of tools and innovations associated with the green economy, leadership, adaptation, and the implementation of sustainable partnerships.

The PIDF seeks to act as a multipartite platform for government leaders, the private sector and civil society, to create dynamic partnerships in which leaders and representatives of Pacific countries take ownership of the decisions and actions implemented to meet their specific development needs.

Solar Head of State (SHOS) is an international non-profit organization that promotes access to solar energy. Their model was inspired by a campaign initiated in 1979 by US president Jimmy Carter who had solar water heaters installed on the White House to conserve energy and set an example for the American public amidst an energy crisis. Since then, the NGO has focused its work on small island developing states (SIDS) with installations of solar panels on government buildings in Jamaica, Saint Lucia and the Maldives. SHOS is now working in partnership with the Organizational of Eastern Caribbean States and the Pacific Island Development Forum to install solar panels on government buildings across these organizations’ combined 24 member states.

The Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy (CESaRE) was developed in 2016 out of a recognized need to modernize and revolutionize the Caribbean’s scientific research publishing. With the global shift towards renewables over traditional energy sources, together with a collective rise in environmental consciousness, CESaRE is the perfect opportunity for highlighting such research conducted in the Caribbean. CESaRE will provide a suitable forum to encourage research dissemination in the region and promises to be more than just a collection of academic articles. Our innovative media and growing audience will provide a nexus for Caribbean leaders, key industry partners, and authorities to catalyze more effective decision making processes within our increasingly vulnerable region.