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Spotlight on Climate Change and Disaster Management as UWI hosts Conference on the Economy

For Release Upon Receipt - November 2, 2022

St. Augustine


 

 

 

 ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. Tuesday 1 November, 2022 – The public is invited to participate in the 16thAnnual Conference on the Economy (COTE) on November 3 and 4, 2022, via Zoom. 

COTE, a landmark event, presents findings from quality research and other studies to inform economic and social policy. Hosted by the St Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus, COTE highlights key economic issues facing Trinidad and Tobago and, by extension, the wider Caribbean region in light of the present global environment.  

The 2022 conference explores Climate Change and Disaster Management: Towards Sustainable Development for Small Island Developing States and will address such sub-themes as the economics of natural disasters: disaster management, risk management, policy implementation, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation and economic issues facing Caribbean countries or the Caribbean region. 

The virtual conference will be held on Thursday 03rd November and Friday 04th November 2022 via zoom at 1:00 p.m. [AST]. It will feature Ian Durant, Director of the Economics Department of the Caribbean Development Bank.  He has done research on debt sustainability and debt restructuring and has worked on policy-based loans for Caribbean countries that involved debt restructuring. 

 Interested persons can register at https://sta.uwi.edu/fss/economics/cote-2022  or email sta-cote@sta.uwi.edu  

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About The University of the West Indies

 The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development; residing at the centre of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region.

 From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with near 50,000 students and five campuses: Monain Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hillin Barbados, Five IslandsinAntigua and Barbuda and itsOpen Campus, and 10 global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

 The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport. As the Caribbean’s leading university, it possesses the largest pool of Caribbean intellect and expertise committed to confronting the critical issues of our region and wider world.

 The UWI has been consistently ranked among the top universities globally by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education (THE). In the latest World University Rankings 2022, released in September 2021, The UWI moved up an impressive 94 places from last year. In the current global field of some 30,000 universities and elite research institutes, The UWI stands among the top 1.5%.

 The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists since its debut in the rankings in 2018. In addition to its leading position in the Caribbean, it is also in the top 20 for Latin America and the Caribbean and the top 100 global Golden Age universities (between 50 and 80 years old).  The UWI is also featured among the leading universities on THE’s Impact Rankings for its response to the world’s biggest concerns, outlined in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Good Health and Wellbeing; Gender Equality and Climate Action.

 For more, visit www.uwi.edu.

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