Dr. Agard is Professor of Tropical Island Ecology and Head of the Department of Life Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago.
He is a former Chairman of the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (EMA), and he has served internationally as lead author in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007.
Watch the entire speech, which is divided into two clips - Part 1 is 47'56" long and Part 2 is 7'09" long.