Alan Cooper

Innovating today for a better tomorrow.

[Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) @IMAgovTT]

Reports of fish kills in Tobago: Delaford Bay, Roxborough, Lambeau Beach, and Flying Reef. Marine life, including parrotfish, snapper, butterflyfish, trumpetfish, eels, and octopuses, affected.Learn more: https://t.co/EI7Laavlv8
#Tobago #MarineLife #FishKill #AlgalBloom #imagovtt

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

Battling the sargassum threat! Mangroves, crucial for robust coastal ecosystems, are in jeopary. In Petit Trou Lagoon, @UNDPTT and @IMAgovTT conduct a vital assessment. Can innovation be used to address the challenge? UNDP Accelerator Labs #coastalresilience

[Greg Smith @GregTheThinker]

🤝🚀 Empowering innovation! 🌟
@UNDPTT is excited to team up with #TrinidadandTobago Ministry of Social Development and Family Services to introduce cutting-edge digital tools that support faster, seamless aid for the most vulnerable! 🌐 #CollaborationForInnovation #TechForGood

[United Nations Trinidad and Tobago @UN_TandT]

Echoing calypso legend @DavidRudder, UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres drew from 'Rally Round the West Indies' and declared,

"Our world needs the islands. We need to rally round CARICOM."

His remarks to @CARICOMorg: https://t.co/V4S0esrQBQ

📷: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

[Gerardo NOTO @gnoto62]

Congratulations to CARICOM and Caribbean countries on 50th Anniversary of its creation by the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Challenges to sustainable development and climate crisis renew a mandate of cooperation and working together for People, Planet, Peace, Prosperity and Partnership.

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Seagrasses:

🐠Nurture 20% of the world's largest fisheries
🌊Filter ocean water for corals
💰Support livelihoods
🕊️Provide forage for migrating birds
🌎Store up to 18% of oceanic carbon

https://t.co/gTKIUAVgby

#BuildBackBiodiversity #BiodiversityDay

Via @UNEP_AsiaPac

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

TT Accelerator Lab partnered with GEF SGP to produce a stakeholder-informed systems baseline on reducing waste plastic in Trinidad and Tobago. Our launch is carded for June 14 (fingers crossed), alongside a workshop for 7 grantees on plastic innovation.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

More than 3,200 substances associated with plastics contain hazardous chemicals which pose a threat to our health & environment.

New report by @‌UNEP & @‌BSR sheds light on the toxic impacts of chemicals in plastics & calls for urgent action.

[UNDP Trinidad and Tobago Multi Country Office @UNDPTT]

#UNDPTT #EU #GCCA

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Tourism fuels the plastic pollution crisis, with 8 million tonnes entering our oceans every year.

Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, discover how the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative brings the entire sector together to #BeatPlasticPollution.

[Greg Smith @GregTheThinker]

🚀 Big applause for graduates of Step Up Initiative at the Bethlehem Boys RC School, fueled by @UNDPTT! 🌍 Through the @UNDPAccLabs #Peace #Innovation #Challenge, this project empowers young boys to become civic-minded peace champions.
📺https://t.co/OMJu4WS2sR
#PeaceBuilding

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

Tobago-based innovators! You've asked for it, and we listened. Deadline extended to May 21st for submission of project concepts. #tobagosdg #peacebuilding #Sustainability #undptt #pnud #smallislandeconomy #grassrootinnovation #innovation

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

El Puente ("The Bridge") used the burroquite as cultural expression common to both T&T + Venezuela to combat xenophobia by building intercultural understanding, reviving local culture & teaching migrant kids born here their culture. 🇹🇹 + 🇻🇪 #Peacebuilding #migrant #cultura #paz

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

🌿Calling all Tobago-based civil society organizations, companies, and individuals! 🚀The Tobago Innovation Challenge is looking for innovative projects that reflect and contribute to the island's motto of "Tobago - Clean, Green, Safe and Serene." #greentobago #communitypower

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

🌿Calling all Tobago-based civil society organizations, companies, and individuals! 🚀The Tobago Innovation Challenge is looking for innovative projects that reflect and contribute to the island's motto of "Tobago - Clean, Green, Safe and Serene." #greentobago #undptobago

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

Farming at the prison: largely funded collectively by prison officers and inmates, an example of how agriculture is being used to improve prisoner-inmate relations and rehabilitate inmates while providing them with skills for sustainable livelihoods upon completion of sentence.

[Jordanna Straker @j_tenneb]

The first in our 2023 blog series on climate change from the perspective of Big Ocean States is here! @riadmeddeb @LHildebrandt @DeanMohseen @alberto_cottica @NyandaPN @AlCooper424 @GregTheThinker

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

@Canal1point5 @drbeen_medical Loved it.

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Today and every day, commit to taking #ClimateAction!

Here are 8 climate actions you can take for a sustainable world 👇

There is no more time to waste!

#EarthHour

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

@drbeen_medical Easy: Poor diet (ultra processed, lacking in fibre and micronutrients), residual toxins like glyphosate in our food hurting our microbiomes, stress leading to intestinal permeability and generally debilitated immune systems.

[Alan Cooper @AlCooper424]

@McBrideWriter Cashima or sugar apple.