sustainable development

  • Photo of CARICOM Heads among world leaders addressing sustainable development

    CARICOM Heads among world leaders addressing sustainable development

    The Prime Ministers of St. Lucia Dr. Kenny Anthony (right) and Dr. Ralph Gonsalves meet on the floor of the United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Prime Minister Gonsalves addressed the Summit on the opening day Friday and Prime Minister Anthony will do so on Saturday. The summit ends on Sunday. CARICOM and other world…

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  • Photo of CARICOM and UNDP exchange views on sustainable development goals

    CARICOM and UNDP exchange views on sustainable development goals

    CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque held discussions with Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ms. Helen Clarke in New York, Thursday.   The Secretary-General and his team joined CARICOM Heads of Government, other world leaders and heads of global institutions for the United Nations launch on Friday, of a landmark new framework “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda…

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  • Photo of Caribbean joins preparation for adoption of new Sustainable Development Goals

    Caribbean joins preparation for adoption of new Sustainable Development Goals

    Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will on Friday join world leaders and heads of global financial institutions for the launch of a landmark new framework for sustainable development. The policy, which will be launched at the United Nations, aims to end poverty and build a life of dignity for every person. The UN said that top development officials are “keenly focused…

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  • Photo of Latin America and Caribbean to adopt SDGs, but still lagging on some MDGs

    Latin America and Caribbean to adopt SDGs, but still lagging on some MDGs

    In the last 15 years, Latin America and the Caribbean have met several key targets included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as reducing extreme poverty, hunger and child mortality, incorporating more girls in the educational system, and expanding access to clean water. However, as the world is setting out on a new challenge, meeting the Sustainable Development Goals…

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  • Photo of COP 21 critically important to CARICOM

    COP 21 critically important to CARICOM

    Climate Change and its effects engaged the attention of the new Kittitian Ambassador to CARICOM and the Secretary-General during an accreditation ceremony on Tuesday at the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Guyana. In presenting his credentials to the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Ambassador Lionel Sydney Osborne of St. Kitts and Nevis noted that “as a Region…

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  • SIDS need support of international community

    Any decision on the creation of a new regional programmatic framework for sustainable development must have at its core the means of implementation. This was made clear today by Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Senator Jepter Ince, as he addressed the opening ceremony of a national consultation on the United Nations Caribbean Multi-Country Sustainable Development…

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  • Photo of Countries Say Equality is Not Possible without a Gender Perspective in Sustainable Development Goals

    Countries Say Equality is Not Possible without a Gender Perspective in Sustainable Development Goals

    The fifty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean ended on Friday in the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic Information by ECLAC The country representatives that participated in the fifty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed on Friday, July 31 their…

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  • Photo of Changing the world through our participation: Caribbean overview of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Changing the world through our participation: Caribbean overview of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Six strategic action areas were agreed as critical for the Caribbean in achieving substantive gender equality and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Honourable Volda Lawrence, Minister of Social Protection Guyana at the 40th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in BVI. Photo compliments GIS/BVI.   The priorities set to inform next steps around the localisation of the SDGs in…

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  • Photo of The United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda

    The United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda

    The Post-2015 Development Agenda From 25-27 September 2015, the United Nations will convene a Summit for  the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda; and  approximately one hundred and  thirty-one (131) Heads of Government/State have, to date, confirmed their attendance.  The Summit will consist of plenary debates and a series of round tables. The Post-2015 Development Agenda will succeed the Millennium…

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  • Photo of Belize continues to bet on energy efficiency

    Belize continues to bet on energy efficiency

    As part of a regional effort to improve energy efficiency in CARICOM member states, the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities (MESTPU) of Belize has partnered with the OAS Department of Sustainable Development, and in cooperation with the OAS Belize Office, launched the “Standards and Labelling” component of the Energy for Sustainable Development in Caribbean Buildings Project…

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