Dear Colleagues, For those of you attending the UN Oceans Conference in New York next week, we would like to welcome you to a side Event:
"Building Capacity for Implementation and Monitoring of SDG14: The Commonwealth and the Higher Education Community”, Side-Event at the UN Oceans Conference, “Our oceans, our future: partnering for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14”, 6 June 2017, 11:00-12:30, Conference Room A, UNHQ, New York. The Side Event is organised by: UN SIDS Partnership “Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty in SIDS” (The ‘Sharp End’ partnership). The Side Event will include speaker slots of 5-7 minutes each, followed by a roundtable. Confirmed speakers include: The Commonwealth Secretariat Jeff Ardron, Adviser, Ocean Governance The University of the South Pacific (USP) Prof. Rajesh Chandra, Vice-Chancellor The University of the West Indies (UWI) Dayne Buddo, Centre for Marine Sciences The World Fisheries University (Korea) Prof. Jeonghwan Park, Pukyong National University Short (2-3 minute) interventions during the roundtable to include: SIDS Youth AIMS Hub: SYAH - Seychelles’ Toolkit: Shafira Charlette The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN) (podcast) International Ocean Institute, Malta - Antonella Vassella Global Coral Reef Alliance - Thomas Goreau Moderator: Nicholas Watts, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London For further details, see: (https://oceanconference.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=20000&nr=1847&menu=3327), under “Documentation: Overview and Agenda”. For any further queries, please contact me at nsjwatts(at)gmail.com. Dr Nicholas Watts FRSA Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk) Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol Graduate School of Education, Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE, Education in Small States Research Group) (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/sites/smallstates/what/) and Chair, UN SIDS partnership "Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty in SIDS” (http://www.sids2014.org/index.php?page=view&type=1006&nr=2705&menu=1507) Senior Research Associate, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/ueber_uns/team/research_associates/watts-nicholas/index.html Special Projects Adviser, Commonwealth Association of Museums Convenor Caribbean Studies Association Working Group on Environment and Sustainability (http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org) Advisory Board, SOCARE (Society for Caribbean Research) (http://caribbeanresearch.net/en/about-socare/) Member, Commonwealth Argosy and Member, Eminent Persons Group, Commonwealth Resilience Forum Formerly: Trustee and Projects Committee Chair, Commonwealth Human Ecology Council and Principal Investigator, Fisherfolk Livelihoods Case Studies, Commonwealth Fisheries Programme (www.commonwealthfisheries.org) UK Coordinator, Schools at University for Climate and Energy (SAUCE) Intelligent Energy Europe Project (www.schools-at-university.eu) Contact: Tel (landline UK) +44 (0) 208 806 4008 Tel. (mobile UK) +44 (0) 7515 393 127 Skype: nicholas.watts1 Email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
