environment
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USAID launches US$12.5 million Caribbean marine biodiversity programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a US$12.5 million Caribbean Marine Biodiversity Programme (CMBP), in an effort to protect critical marine ecosystems and reduce threats to the region’s fisheries and tourism sectors. The five-year initiative is also aimed at promoting conservation in high priority areas across the Caribbean; improving the management of marine protected areas (MPAs);…
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Regional meeting on Rio Summit declaration
Caribbean delegates ended a two-day meeting in St Lucia on Wednesday identifying opportunities for collective action towards the full implementation of measures contained in Declaration of the 1992 Rio Summit. File Photo The organisers said the conference looked at access rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters as enshrined in Principle 10 of the Declaration. The meeting was…
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Accreditation: a regional first for Antigua’s Environment Division
Antigua and Barbuda no longer has to go through a middle man to access financing from the Adaptation Fund of the Climate Change Convention. Over the weekend, the country received word that it has been accredited as a National Implementation Entity. “This facility within the climate change convention was negotiated specifically to allow developing countries to have direct access. “Over…
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World Oceans Day: an opportunity to showcase new, emerging opportunities
World Oceans Day was celebrated on Monday 8 June 2015. For the Caribbean Region, the ocean represents the life blood for critical economic sectors including agriculture, tourism, fisheries, and transportation. Seized on the importance of the ocean to the Region, the Caribbean Community Secretariat sought the opinion of an expert in this field on several critical issues. The following is…
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Region a steward to important ocean resources
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has links with the ocean that surrounds it that can be described as spiritual, cultural and economic. The economic benefits to this Region, derived from Ocean resources, cannot be underestimated. The fishing industry, for example, is estimated to provide jobs for more than 200,000 people in the Region directly employed, either full-time or part-time. Added to…
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CARICOM SG lauds Secretariat’s celebration of World Environment Day
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has lauded as “commendable and timely,” the CARICOM Secretariat’s celebration of World Environmental Day 2015, on Friday 5 June, 2015. His commendations were made against the background of the priority CARICOM has placed on building environmental resilience in the Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community 2015-2019: Repositioning CARICOM. Ambassador LaRocque said that the…
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Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea
NASSAU, May 29 2015 (IPS) – Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable countries. But for the countries of the Caribbean, the challenge associated with…
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CARICOM Secretariat wraps up workshop on financing biodiversity in the Region
A four-day workshop on financing biodiversity in the Region being held by the CARICOM Secretariat at theCity View Hotel in Antigua and Barbuda ended on Thursday. The CARICOM Secretariat has partnered with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, and the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean to deliver the workshop. Presentations were conducted by…
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CARICOM Secretariat’s involvement in biodiversity in Region timely
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s expansion of its involvement in biodiversity in the Region is timely as it coincides with work being undertaken to establish a post-2015 sustainable development agenda in which biodiversity conservation and restoration are featured prominently. “We must now work to ensure that the contribution that biodiversity can make is adequately recognized and strengthened, including at the Regional and national…
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CARICOM to hold workshop on financing for biodiversity in Antigua and Barbuda
The Caribbean Community, under the EU-funded Project for Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements in African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries will be conducting a workshop in Antigua and Barbuda on resource mobilisation and sustainable financing for biodiversity . The workshop on May 18-21, 2015, at the City View Hotel, is being delivered in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD),…
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