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Green Investment Power Forum For Guyana

February 10, 2012
NEW YORK, NY
For Immediate Release
Press Contact: Chris Chaplin
Email: chris@caribpr.com
Source - CarinPr Wire

CaribPR Wire, NEW YORK, NY, Feb. 10, 2012: The first Green Investment power forum has been added to the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s 13th annual Sustainable Tourism Conference and is set for Guyana this April.

The CTO is partnering with Invest Caribbean Now, the brand founded by Felicia Persaud, the Guyana-born CEO of the New York-based digital media company Hard Beat Communications, to present the inaugural green forum.

The event is set for April 8, 2012 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal and will feature Greg Watson, head of the Climate Change team at the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of The Inter-American Development Group and Tony Fiddy, President of Naanovo Energy UK Ltd.

Persaud explained that the green forum will be similar to the company’s Invest Caribbean Now New York forum, which took place last June in New York, allowing presentations from both speakers while giving ministers of government, tourism officials, entrepreneurs and other delegates the opportunity to pitch their investment ideas and prospects to both Watson and Fiddy.

The successful June 9, 2011 event at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel featured over 300 money managers, investors, hoteliers, ministers of governments and real estate developers as part of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Caribbean Week in New York series of events. The event returns this June 6th to New York City and will feature CEO of McKinney Rogers, Damian Rogers as the key note speaker along with the chairman of Blue Equity, LLC, Jonathan Blue and President of Solamon Energy, Jay Neo.

“The Caribbean and Guyana has tremendous potential for investments, especially for green investors, as evidenced by the interest of many renewable companies in a region rich with sun, wind and waterfalls, all of which have become attractive potential sources of power,” said Persaud. “This event presents an opportunity for the government of Guyana as well as Caribbean ministers and entrepreneurs to do business in renewables.”

Watson re-joined the Multilateral Investment Fund of the IDB Group in 2008, having previously worked there from 2004-2007. He serves as the team leader for the MIF’s environment and clean energy team, conceptualizing, overseeing, and implementing the MIF’s climate change projects, investments and research in clean and efficient energy, natural capital, and adaptation.

Watson leads several projects in the Caribbean, including a recent regional project on adaptation, projects on energy efficiency in Jamaica and Barbados, and a project on sustainable tourism and biodiversity in Guyana.

Reporting to the President and CEO of Naanovo Energy Inc., Fiddy holds the dual position of President of Naanovo’s Waste to Energy Division and the Regional Vice President for Europe and Africa. As head of the WTE Division, his primary responsibility is to oversee the global deployment of WTE/MaaxTM systems and to work with regional representatives of Naanovo and its subsidiaries in the development of WTE projects. This includes projects in the Caribbean, among them St. Kitts/Nevis.

Partnership and exhibitor opportunities to be a part of the historic Guyana Green Energy forum are available by calling 1-646-820-5694 or emailing Joe Bernstein at joe@investcaribbeannow.com.

Guyana has become a key player in the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions which significantly contribute to climate change. The Caribbean Tourism Organization has been staging its Annual Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development, otherwise known as the Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) since 1997. This conference will be keynoted by former Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo on April 15th and is part of the information dissemination and regional awareness component of CTO’s Strategy for Sustainable Tourism. STC also serves as a primary arena where new and creative ideas about enhancing the competitiveness and sustainability of the Caribbean tourism product are generated.

Partners to date for the April 18th Green Investment forum include One Caribbean Television, CaribPR Wire and News Americas Now.

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This conference will be keynoted by former Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo on April 15th and is part of the information dissemination and regional awareness component of CTO’s Strategy for Sustainable Tourism.

FM
Former Guyana president Jagdeo to keynote region's premier sustainable tourism conference, STC-13

Friday, February 10, 2012
Last Updated Thursday, February 9, 2012
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The former Guyana president, Bharrat Jagdeo, will keynote the region’s leading and most important gathering on sustainable tourism development in April.

The former leader, whose term as head of the Guyana Government ended last December, will address delegates attending the 13th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development – otherwise known as the Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC-13) – which will be held from 15 to 18 April in Guyana.

“We are pleased that former president Jagdeo has accepted our invitation to keynote STC. The former president has gained international recognition and has developed a strong reputation globally for his relentless advocacy for action to avert the worst extremes of climate change,” said Gail Henry, the sustainable tourism product specialist at the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the conference organizer. “We eagerly anticipate a dynamic and highly relevant keynote presentation from him.”

As part of the plan to combat climate change, then President Jagdeo established an Office of Climate Change within the Office of the President, and a Low Carbon Development Strategy was developed, outlining Guyana’s approach to promoting economic development while combating climate change. A key element of the strategy is the deployment of the country’s tropical forests towards addressing climate change.

For championing the cause of developing countries in the fight against climate change, the former Guyana leader was named by Time Magazine and CNN as one of their “Heroes of the Environment" in 2008, and he was awarded the United Nations “Champion of the Earth” award in 2010. He also served on the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance, and earlier this month, he was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University in New Delhi, India. He was presented with the honour by Dr. R.K Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Chancellor of TERI University.

STC-13, which has as its theme, Keeping the Right Balance: Sustaining our Resources, will be held at the Guyana International Conference Centre, and is being organized in collaboration with the Guyana Tourism Authority. For more information on STC-13, visit www.caribbeanstc.com
FM
Diss is all bull S, mek wuk fa keep Jaggy busy. Green powah moo expensive dann fossil/gyass. Bu' wuh di bigg fuss anyway, abie grand parent bin cook pan fiah-side wid dry cow sh1t, dem black and wite man ah bin laff dem. Dah was green powah.

Abie muss fuss develop wid abie gyass and hydro, denn wenn abie peeple get lil moo piasa denn we cyan taalk bout green powah.
FM
With the right investment in Guyana the country can be a self sustaining green energy producer. Our water, wind and sun resources are not harvested.


The oil industry has some strong forces protecting its interests. I have been to the Nevada desert many times. Most of the land is desert land owned by the American government or some Billionaire like Ted Turner. Most of that land is wasted. During the year it is all sunshine there. I cannot see why they cannot put fields of solar panels in the desert to collect energy from the sun.
Wally
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With the right investment in Guyana the country can be a self sustaining green energy producer. Our water, wind and sun resources are not harvested.


The oil industry has some strong forces protecting its interests. I have been to the Nevada desert many times. Most of the land is desert land owned by the American government or some Billionaire like Ted Turner. Most of that land is wasted. During the year it is all sunshine there. I cannot see why they cannot put fields of solar panels in the desert to collect energy from the sun.

Yuh tink soa nah, wile grass grow haaase staave, so deh seh nah!
FM

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