climate change
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U.N. Climate Talks Advance Link Between Gender and Climate Change
GENEVA, Feb 12 2015 (IPS) – A week of climate negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland Feb. 8-13 are setting the stage for what promises to be a busy year. In order to reach an agreement in Paris by December, negotiators will have to climb a mountain of contentious issues which continue to overshadow the talks. One such issue is the relevance…
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Jamaica Environment Minister issues call to action for sustainable development
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Jamaica’s Minister of Water, Land, Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill on Thursday evening issued a call to all Caribbean Community (CARICOM) stakeholders to shape the sustainable development agenda of the Region. “Governments, the private sector and civil society must all work together in shaping this agenda, particularly in 2015 when…
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Jamaica Gets Boost to Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is getting a boost to its efforts to improve its resilience to climate change. The country has been provided $17 million from the Inter-American Development Bank under the bank’s Adaptation Programme and Financing Mechanism for the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience. The funding will help the second phase of the government’s climate resilience programme,…
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Jamaica Environment Minister issues a call to action for sustainable development
Jamaica’s Minister of Water, Land, Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, the Hon. Robert Pickersgill on Thursday evening issued a call to all Caribbean Community (CARICOM) stakeholders in shaping the sustainable development agenda of the Region. Addressing the opening of the Fifty-Third Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment and Sustainable Development at…
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Jamaica Environment Minister wants unified energy policy framework, regulation integration
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change of Jamaica Hon. Robert Pickersgill said that a major challenge being faced by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations was securing financing for energy projects, given their size. The Minister, who was chairing the Fifty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) on the Environment and Energy, said smaller energy projects are…
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Caribbean climate change officials meeting in Saint Lucia
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Jan 27, CMC – Caribbean climate change negotiators are meeting here in preparation for global talks on the environment in Paris later this year. The talks are a follow-up to the 20th Conference of Parties (CoP) held in Peru last December. “The crucial Paris meeting should see the adoption of a new global agreement for reducing climate…
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Ronald Sanders: 2015 begins with urgency to save the Caribbean from climate change
Sir Ronald Sanders BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday January 2, 2015 – If ever there was a time and an issue for the countries of the Caribbean to speak with one voice and at a high level, both the time and the issue have arrived. The issue is the global average temperature arising from climate change which is now scientifically indisputable. A…
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Climate Change Creates New Geography of Food
LIMA, Dec 12 2014 (IPS) – The magnitude of the climate changes brought about by global warming and the alterations in rainfall patterns are modifying the geography of food production in the tropics, warned participants at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital. That was the main concern among experts in food security taking part in the 20th session of…
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