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Indi McLymont-Lafayette
Indi McLymont-Lafayette – Media and Communications Specialist Indi Mclymont-Lafayette is a multi-award winning journalist with just over thirteen years experience in media and communications. Since joining Panos Caribbean in 2006 she has honed her expertise in communications for development with significant focus being on communicating climate change issues in Jamaica, the Caribbean and internationally. The pilot environment communication project that she leads in Jamaica, the Voices for Climate change Education project, was in late 2011 named a UN Communication best practice case study. She has played a key role as a regional partner in the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) which is the premier programme building Journalists capacity to cover the UN Climate meetings each year. Ms. Mclymont-Lafayette holds a BA in Media and Communications, an MA in Counselling Psychology and is the Regional Director, Community, Media and Environment at Panos Caribbean.
Posts by Indi McLymont-Lafayette
Small Islands calling for firm decisions at Durban climate meetings
No commentsSmall islands pressing for climate decisions urgently
»Global warning
No commentsCaribbean music artistes produced this video with the help of Panos Caribbean as a warning against climate change.
»Small islands gain support as they fight for survival
No commentsCopenhagen- Small islands states (including the Caribbean) jumped into the spotlight of the United Nations Climate Change discussions in Copenhagen, Denmark when they introduced their own draft text into the negotiations with tremendous support from another 53 non-island countries and the global lobby group, 350.org.
»Climate risk costly for Caribbean countries
No commentsFour Caribbean countries (Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti and the Dominican Republic) last year had losses of US$254 million and 62 deaths due to extreme weather events (storms, floods and heat waves) associated with climate change.
»Small island states militant about climate deals for Copenhagen
No commentsSmall Islands marshall support of about 100 countries for their climate targets
»Six Caribbean Islands in the top 40 climate hot spots
No commentsAt least six Caribbean islands – Haiti, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Jamaica, Martinique and Saint Lucia – were on Thursday morning ranked in the top forty countries experiencing extreme weather impacts by the 2009 Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index.
»Carribean Countries Call for Special Climate Change Adaption Fund
No commentsGrenada called for the establishment of a special convention adaptation fund for developing countries at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Monday.
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