Grenada
27 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 June 2012: The Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) hosted a leaders breakfast on 21 June 2012, on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The breakfast was attended by Heads of State or Government from Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Colombia, Grenada, Indonesia, and Seychelles, who announced new conservation commitments.
Antigua and Barbuda committed to protecting 20% of its near shore...
13 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 June 2012: The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has announced that the Government of Grenada has ratified the Ramsar Convention. The Convention will come into force for Grenada on 22 September 2012, making Grenada the 162nd Contracting Party to Ramsar.
Grenada’s first obligatory Ramsar Site is named Levera Wetland, a varied area of valuable tropical marine ecosystems on the northeast of the island. It includes seagrass beds,...
11 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 June 2012: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved a work programme of 84 projects and two programmatic approaches amounting to US$667.26 million in GEF project grants, and appointed Naoko Ishii (Japan) as the GEF’s new Chairperson and CEO.
The 42nd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council convened in Washington, DC, US, from 5-7 June 2012, at the World Bank headquarters. Over 200 representatives of governments, international organizations and civil...
25 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 May 2012: The World Bank will lend US$25 million to support the first phase of the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program, a program to provide 27 million people in the region with more comprehensive broadband services.
The project consists of a 10-year information and communications technology plan for the entire Caribbean region. This first phase, however, will solely focus on providing better broadband services to Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the...
24 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 May 2012: The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has published a report that examines the vulnerability and exposure to climate change of the 72,182 km coastline of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The report looks at individual five km long, 20 km wide strips of LAC coastline, analyzing the physical, socioeconomic and ecological characteristics of coastal zones according to variables such as land type and use, crop areas or ecosystem zones, population...
