Territorial Councillor Pascale Laborde gives her address at the Sargassum conference.
Territorial Councillor Raj Charbhe, technician in charge of regional cooperation Omar Morales, Territorial Councillor Pascale Laborde and technician in charge of agriculture and fishing Elie Touzé attended the Sargassum Conference.
French PM pledges 500,000 euros per year to fight Sargassum
formally established at the conclusion of the conference which brought together national delegations and regional organisations from the Caribbean.
This programme, financed by European funds, is led by the Guadeloupe Region and is supported by Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).
Among the missions set out in a joint statement, the initiative aims to “reinforce the capacity to respond to massive Sargassum invasions by networking best practices in priority areas such as prevention, coastal protection, recovery or the development of a legislative framework.”
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said the
next three years will see the State contribute up to 500,000 euros per year to the operation of the large-scale Sargassum collection at sea.
“We have tried to promote, with resolute action by the State and financing, the equipment of the communes so that they can proceed with the clearing of this algae and then with the processing,” said Philippe. “It’s clear that this solution is not totally satisfactory, since it is necessary to prevent the algae reaching the shores. So, we must also mobilise our immense capacities for research of collective scientific, technical, and technological intelligence, to try to find solutions.”
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