The meeting will be held on Thursday September 20 and Friday September 21, 2010. The first day of the meeting will see participants at the Bay Gardens Hotel in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. The second day of the meeting will be devoted to a “networking field trip” to the south of Saint Lucia where participants will observe, first hand, initiatives that involve green technologies.
Building on the Green Growth Investment Forum hosted by the Mission of the Eastern Caribbean States in Brussels in early October 2011, the meeting will attract regional and international experts to look closely at proposals coming out of the earlier Forum. The experts will also propose an action plan to take forward the proposals in the form of projects.
The participants will comprise investors in the area of green investments in the Caribbean and private sector representatives who use green technologies or are interested in developing these technologies within their companies. Also in attendance will be experts from the OECS Secretariat, OECS joint institutions in the areas of energy, export development, the Investment Promotion Agencies and representatives from the public sector.
Among the topics to be discussed is a proposal for a Green Award for enterprises that produce based on sustainable and environment-friendly criteria. Participants will also discuss the concept of a Green Award as an approach to "Gap Analysis"; Green Awards and Creative Industries; and, Youth-targeted Green Awards.