Jamaica
Bill
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27 Aug 2012
PREPARED BY OHRLLS
SUMMARY
The 2012 Third World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), saw 36 representatives and heads of state from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) take to the floor during the Plenary Session to deliver statements on a range of issues of importance and relevance to them. Of the 36 SIDS representatives, 10 were Heads of State while 10 were Heads of Government making up 26% of the 77 Heads of State and Heads of Government who addressed the Plenary...
02 Apr 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 March 2013: The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) hosted a discussion of the successes and challenges involved with implementing Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phase out Management Plans under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
The meeting convened the English speaking Caribbean and Haiti Ozone Officers Regional Network Meeting in Basseterre, St. Kitts from 18-...
16 Mar 2013
The Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is providing support for two sub-regional consultation meetings, with the aim of making advances in the preparation of the final monitoring and evaluation report of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). The meetings will contribute to the creation of a new global framework defining follow-up activities for the Decade, and...
08 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2013: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Global Mechanism (GM) has launched a revamped web-based platform titled “Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – Finance.” The site will support the exchange of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, many of which are also small island developing States (SIDS).
The platform, which is part of the EU-funded Scope|ACP project, a South...
06 Dec 2012
The inaugural workshop of the Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) Project will serve as its first stakeholder consultation, bringing together managers, technical personnel and policy makers from 25 national, intergovernmental and regional entities to discuss how CARIWIG can best serve the Caribbean's water, agriculture and coastal resource sectors through reliable access to unbiased, locally-relevant climate change information in a manner that complements their planning cycles. Funded by...
