CADA Annual General Meeting 2024
CADA’s AGM will be held on Thursday June 20th. 9.45am to 1.00pm
Venue: Habitat for Humanity, Young Street, Lisburn BT27 5EA
This year CADA’s AGM has been honoured in securing Ms. Gaia Vince as its keynote speaker.
Gaia will address the meeting remotely. She is an award winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. Gaia writes for the Guardian newspaper, the BBC and the New Scientist among others. Her talk will focus on one of her latest books ‘Nomad Century’, “an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change how and where we live….describing how we can plan for and manage the now unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state”.
Gaia’s book explains “over the next 50 years, hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal for 3.5 billion of us. Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need new homes. You will be among them or you will be receiving them’ Gaia talks about the four linked phenomena of fire, heat, drought, and flood and their relevance to population movements. ‘Migration on a scale not seen before will dominate this century’ Gaia additionally exposes the increasingly toxic way in which refugees and migrants are spoken about and reminds us that ‘today’s nation states are a relatively new invention, while migration is our oldest survival strategy”. Finally, Gaia invites us to consider ideas of global citizenship.
So, please come along to our AGM. And remember to invite your associates and supporters. They can join remotely for the Gaia Vince input if unable to come in person to Habitat where Gaia will be zoomed in. We will circulate the link to you closer to the time.
CADA has also invited Ms. Kate Nicholl MLA and Chair of the All Party Group on International Development (APGID) and we await her response. CADA is commencing a schedule of themed meetings with the APGID and Kate will, if able to attend, outline her hopes and aspirations for International Development at Stormont.