Island Policy Lab Newsletter

About the IPL

The Island Policy Lab is passionately committed to finding solutions to the unique challenges faced by island nations, territories and other small island jurisdictions stemming from social, economic, environmental and natural resource factors.

Mission

The mission of the IPL is to provide policymakers, corporate public and private leaders and the general public with data-driven and high quality analysis on sustainability issues in islands. The IPL also provides a shared, open knowledge sharing and transfer platform to strengthen SIDS research and training capacity, and SIDS government policy interventions. It aims to bring the power of academic rigor to generate innovative and applied policy-based solutions to islands’ problems.

NEW POLICY BRIEFS

See here every quarter for our latest policy brief on urgent island issues

Can Electric Vehicles Drive the Transport Revolution in Small Island States?

By Kalim Shah

The transportation sector is a major contributor to the global release of greenhouse gases. Electric vehicles have been widely accepted and island societies are the perfect locations to try to entirely transition to EVs. Their small surface area gives for less range anxiety, while their smaller population allows for the entire population to accept EVs more quickly. There is also higher potential for renewable energy on islands. In order to successfully carry out this type of major transition, there must be some proactive policy in place. Encouraging people to buy EVs through incentives and avoiding any negating policy is essential to convince the population to make this transition.

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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Shelly-Ann Cox

Affiliate

Shelly-Ann Cox has worked on a number of island-related projects such as CC4FISH, StewardFish, CLME+ Hub and SargAdapt, which she highlights in our Spotlight Section.

Shelly-Ann is an Ocean professional, Fisheries Management Specialist, Oceanpreneur, Science Communicator, Deputy Chairperson of the Fisheries Advisory Committee in Barbados. Read more...

Kirsten McGregor

Affiliate

Kirsten McGregor is an economic recovery and resilience expert. She is currently working with the U.S Virgin Islands Research Tech park on funding strategies on developing economic initiatives.

Kirsten leverages her experience in strategic planning and economic recovery to manage complex initiatives both in the US and abroad. Read more...

NEW COLLABORATION

Exploring Governance Dynamics for Sustainable Energy Transitions in Overseas Island Jurisdictions: The Case of Martinique in the Caribbean

The Island Policy Lab of the University of Delaware and the Université de la Reunion will be collaborating on an exchange educational and research program with a grant received from the Thomas Jefferson Grant from the FACE Foundation.

The grant will be used to explore the governance dynamics in Reunion Island and Martinique to accelerate sustainable energy transition.

Project Abstract
Small island jurisdictions continue to be strained by dependence on imported fossil fuels to run their economies and meet the needs of their societies. Seeking cleaner energy options and further energy independence through transitions to renewable resources such as wind, solar and geothermal have potential in many islands but have yet to reach fruition. Drawing from our experience in assessment of technical renewable energy potentials and policy, regulatory and institutional analysis of energy security in islands, our interest is planning pathways for achieving transition in the particular contexts of overseas island departments and territories. For this the researchers study the French departments in the Caribbean and Indian ocean, the nature of their energy governance and their transition goals, while navigating regional energy policy with independent island neighbors and comparing to U.S and Netherlands island territories in the Caribbean region.

CONVERSATIONS

Strengthening Partnerships for Energy Security and Resilience in the Pacific

On September 30th, The Pacific Community in partnership with PIFS, SREP, USP, PPA, UNDP and the PICTs held the third segment of the 3-day workshop on Low-Carbon Land Transportation. Dr Shah, IPL Director, discussed insights from the Caribbean.

Green Industries, Technologies & Air Pollution

On March 11th, Dr Shah joined Tara Ramanathan and Vivek Bhatia to discuss key policy and challenges for developing countries wishing to transition to green economies. This event was organized by the The Ramphal Institute and supported by the UK government.

NEWS FROM OUR ISLANDS

Islands in general: Small Island Nations caught between Tourism Economic, Climate Change from Hawaii Public Radio

Mauritius: What the Mauritius kestrel can teach us about wildlife reintroductions from Mongabay

Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic proposes to create a fund finance transition of Latin American countries towards a sustainable development model from Dominican Republic Live

Cape Verde: New Energy Information Management system in Cape Verde from ALER

Saint Lucia: World Bank approves US$ 21.9 million to fund geothermal energy exploration in Saint Lucia from World Bank Press Release

The Global South: Scientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a gigantic climate-crisis blind spot from CNN

SOLUTIONS NOT SLOGANS

The Lab is actively engaged on grants, education and research project with businesses, universities, NGOs and governmental agencies, interested in island sustainable development. Contact us by email on islandpolicylab@udel.edu to discuss how we can work with you and your organization. Do share our newsletter with your peers.

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