climate change
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OAS Member States Receive Reports on the Negotiations for a Binding Global Agreement on Climate Change
The Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today received in an special joint session two reports on the results of the meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima in December (COP 20), and the status of the negotiations for the 2015 edition of the meeting (COP…
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Jamaica to Launch $6 Million Climate Change Resilience Project
Jamaica is slated to launch a $6 million climate change resilience project in the greater Kingston metropolitan area, the government announced this week. The project is called “Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC.” The latter refers to Latin America and the Caribbean, where Jamaica was one of three countries selected by the United Nations…
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Fighting climate change with community action
FONDES AMANDES, Trinidad, Feb 18 2015 (IPS) – Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St. Ann’s valley in the Northern Range, the community of Fondes Amandes has come together since 1982 to respond to climate change. For several years, bush fires reduced their forested surroundings to burned grass and charred tree stumps. Locals have also…
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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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