Page 104 - Climate Compliance

• Improving the ability to conduct interviews.
• Having persons in the community capable of assisting with the
104 hosting on talk shows.

For these reasons, RG formed the “Raising awareness on climate change and
other environmental issues in the grenadines through community media and
internet radio” project; supported by The Global Environment Facility (GEF),
Small Grants Programme from the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP).

Part of this project was to conduct 80 talk shows to address climate change and
several other environmental topics. On these talks, listeners were able to call in
and answer questions and win prizes. Richmond Vale Academy provided 20
factsheets for this project to be carried out.

“The fact sheets assisted us greatly especially in the area of how climate
change can affect agriculture and what ordinary persons can do to make a
change especially in small island states”

- Stanton Gomes, Radio Grenadines

WE FM and Hairouna Progressive Organisation

Since the start of the CCC Program participants have engaged with the various
media outlets in St. Vincent. Media such as newspapers, radio stations, National
and Local TV stations have been engaged and supportive to bring the message

of climate change adaptation and mitigation to the public. Every month since
March 2012, the CCC Program has shared news, held discussions and engaged
the public on various topics covering Climate Compliance.

“Before RVA’s public awareness campaigns, many Vincentians did not know
what permaculture was. Dreams of getting gold in a global treelympics

were farfetched and plastic bottles were an environmental menace. Organic
food, GMO awareness and so on were not highly extent. Through RVA’s
intervention with its 2012 -2021 Climate Compliance agenda, SVG is
now a different nation with a more positive environmental attitude.”