Guinea-Bissau
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
Sandwatch seeks to modify the attitudes and lifestyles of children, youth and adults on a community-wide basis by developing awareness of the fragile nature of the marine and coastal environment and the need to use it wisely. It is an educational process through which school students and community members work together to monitor their beach environments, critically evaluate the problems and conflicts, and address those issues in a sustainable manner. With a strong field monitoring component...
Beth
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26 Jul 2011
A National Environment Management Plan was developed in 2004 to oversee the socio-economic development and environmental preservation of Guinea-Bissau. It has established a National Department for the Environment and Sustainable Development, which in the future will have the capacity to develop a National Strategic Action Plan (NSAP). Guinea-Bissau has also ratified the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and following this an Institute for Biodiversity and Protection Areas was established...
Beth
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26 Jul 2011
A tourism development plan in Guinea Bissau was formulated in 2003 in collaboration with the Tourism Directorate, but has not yet been implemented.
A tourism sector does exist in Guinea-Bissau although the country is not as reliant as other SIDS on tourism as a source of foreign exchange earnings. Current ecological threats such as coastal erosion and drought are a threat to the tourism sector, but also create a potential opportunity for sustainable tourism or “eco-tourism” to...
Beth
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26 Jul 2011
Energy policy and strategy is pursued by the State Secretariat for Energy, with the help of bilateral and multilateral donors.
Currently, the main source of energy in Guinea-Bissau comes from forest resources. With a relatively high population growth rate (2% nationally and 4% in the capital city of Bissau), forest resources such as timber are not a sustainable energy source. Currently, 90% of the population relies on fuelwood as its primary source of energy, and government policies have...
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
In 2001, Guinea-Bissau presented its Rapport d´Evaluation Nationale dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre du processus de RIO+10 en République de la Guiné-Bissau (National Assessment Report as part of the implementation of the Rio +10 process in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau) to UNDESA in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), highlighting agriculture as a key theme in addressing social, economic and...
