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  • Photo of CARICOM eyes positive outcomes from Morocco Climate Change meeting – Report

    CARICOM eyes positive outcomes from Morocco Climate Change meeting – Report

    Caribbean Community Heads of States, the CARICOM Secretary-General and senior environmental officers are in Marrakech, Morrocco, for the 22nd Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 22), November 7-18, 2017. Discussions are focusing on the implementation of the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal, the Paris Agreement, approved at the Paris climate conference…

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  • Photo of Door to ‘green’ economy open to CARICOM member states -President David Granger

    Door to ‘green’ economy open to CARICOM member states -President David Granger

    Marrakech, Morocco – (November 16, 2016) The ‘green’ state development agenda, which is being advanced by the Government of Guyana, presents opportunities for Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states to invest in eco-tourism and climate resilient agriculture and access opportunities for education and research in bio-diversity. This view was, today, advanced by President David Granger, during a meeting with Secretary-General of…

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  • Photo of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon  hails ‘new dawn of cooperation on climate change,’ urges action on Paris accord

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon hails ‘new dawn of cooperation on climate change,’ urges action on Paris accord

    15 November 2016 – Ten days after the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, world leaders showed strong support for the implementation of this agreement at the opening of the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, (COP 22) today. “Countries have strongly supported the Agreement because they realize their own national…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Ministerial Briefing sets stage for final week at COP 22

    CARICOM Ministerial Briefing sets stage for final week at COP 22

    CARICOM Ministerial and technical delegates met in a strategy session Monday as the critical second week of the Climate Change conference, COP 22 got going in Marrakech, Morocco. CARICOM Member States are among the more than 100 nations across the globe which have signed and/or ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ahead of it coming into force on 4 November 2016.…

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  • Photo of CARICOM advancing climate change goals at COP22

    CARICOM advancing climate change goals at COP22

    CARICOM Member States are part of the global community of nations gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for this week’s start of the Climate Conference COP22, which is seeking to accelerate implementation of the agreement reached in Paris at COP 21 last December. CARICOM representatives are hoping to build on the gains from the Paris campaign, where they argued that the impact of climate change was an existential…

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  • Photo of Historic Climate Change Agreement in force from Today – CARICOM Member States signed on

    Historic Climate Change Agreement in force from Today – CARICOM Member States signed on

    Several CARICOM Member States signed the Paris Agreement when the Book was opened for signature at the United Nations on 22 April 2016  The Paris Agreement on climate change will enter into force today, 4 November 2016, thirty days after the required minimum of States (55) – accounting for 55 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – ratified…

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  • Photo of CARICOM ACP-MEAs project helps Regional environmentalists prepare for Bio-diversity COP

    CARICOM ACP-MEAs project helps Regional environmentalists prepare for Bio-diversity COP

    Regional environmental officers are attending a workshop to help them prepare for a major international conference on biodiversity, to be held in Mexico in December. The CARICOM ACP-MEAs project is hosting the regional workshop October 11-13 at the Grand Coastal Hotel in Guyana. The purpose of the workshop is to prepare Caribbean negotiators to participate in the 13th Meeting of…

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  • Photo of Climatic events should spur renewable energy efforts: CARICOM SG

    Climatic events should spur renewable energy efforts: CARICOM SG

    Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Irwin LaRocque on Monday said the recent climatic events that affected Haiti, The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic emphasized the need to intensify efforts to maximise the Region’s renewable energy potential. Addressing the opening of the EU-Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados on 10 October 2016, the Secretary-General said the…

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  • Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management: Prepare, Respond, Recover

    ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF A TWO-DAY MEETING HOSTED BY THE EU-FUNDED INTRA-ACP APP Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, September 19, 2016 – “Climate has changed; climate will change and climate demands change”, said Dr. Michael Taylor, a Physicist at a Climate Studies Group in the Caribbean in 2012. He was…

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  • Photo of US$33M to finance climate change resilient infrastructure in Caribbean

    US$33M to finance climate change resilient infrastructure in Caribbean

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Officials from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed an agreement to provide US$33,000,000 towards financing sustainable infrastructure projects in the Caribbean region. At least 50 per cent of the funds will be used to fund climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. The agreement was signed last month at the CDB…

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