Antigua to become first ‘Future Island Nation’
By Nelson A. King
Antigua and Barbuda
Prime Minister Gaston
Browne says his country will
become the first “Future
Island Nation” in the Caribbean.
Addressing over 60,000
attendees at the Global Citizen
Festival in Central Park
Saturday night, Browne said,
that through a new partnership
with Parley for Oceans,
Antigua and Barbuda will
be adopting the Parley Air
Strategy.
Parley Air is the strategy
to end the fast-growing
threat of marine plastic pollution.
“Antigua and Barbuda is
committing to building a
Parley Air Base – a recycling
station that actually works –
which will intercept approximately
27, 000 tons of plastic
on the beaches and from polluting
the environment by
2030, thereby helping eliminate
plastic pollutants from
our shores,” Browne told the
festival.
An Antigua and Barbuda
Government statement
said Parley for the Oceans
addresses “major threats
towards our oceans, the
most important ecosystem
of our planet.”
It said Parley has been created
“to accelerate a process
of change that is already in
progress.
“No other big movement
in the history of humankind
has developed faster than
the environmental cause,”
the statement said.
“We want to make sure we
are fast enough to meet the
ultimate deadline and turn
the ship around before we
lose a treasure we have only
just started to explore and
still don’t fully understand:
the fantastic blue universe
beneath us — the oceans,”
it added.
The Antigua and Barbuda
Government said Parley, an
organization of concerned
musicians, professionals,
artistes, activists and other
individuals, believes that
plastic is “a design failure,
one that can only be solved
by reinventing the material
itself.”
The government said
Parley also believes that in
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Cyrill Gutsch (left) with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne.
order to create change, “the
production of more plastic
must cease immediately and
use up-cycled marine plastic
waste instead.
Parley’s driving motto is
that “everyone has a role to
play, avoid plastic wherever
possible, intercept plastic
waste and redesign the material
itself.”
Browne told the festival
in Central Park that “the
world must transition to
more innovative methods to
reimagine the way plastic
is used,” according to the
statement.
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