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FSS Student Jodyonne A. Reid - Igniting Climate Action in Our Communities!

In 2024, Jodyonne A. Reid, a student in the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), became a Climate Activist and Project Lead for the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. Her project proposal, submitted through the St. James Parish Council, was approved. The initiative, launched in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the St.

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Global Human Development Report (HDR) team looks to Jamaica for climate crisis insights following hurricane Melissa

Group picture of the presenters at this talk.

Insights from Jamaica’s catastrophic experience with Hurricane Melissa will help inform the 2026 edition of the global Human Development Report (HDR), following a landmark consultation convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI).

With the 2025 landfall of the category five Hurricane, UNDPs global HDR team is looking to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica for insights on how the planetary crisis is reshaping social vulnerability and human development.

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