Our Sandy Shorelines Premieres at Green Screen Film Festival
ACS short film Our Sandy Shorelines premiered in Trinidad and Tobago at the Green Screen environmental film festival in October. The film which depicts the threat that coastal erosion poses to development in the countries around the Caribbean Sea. It showcases the work that the ACS is doing through its Sandy Shorelines project to connect the region’s sea scientists and policy-makers to prepare for a very different future. A key theme evident in the film is multilateral cooperation and how ACS Observers interact with the membership to create sustainable development projects and programmes. See the trailer on the ACS Youtube page: https://youtu.be/hLArR64XsLs
The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba, Curacao, (France on behalf of French Guiana, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin ), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Sint Maarten, (The Netherlands on behalf of Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius ), Turks and Caicos.