Jamaica
03 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
12 November 2012: The Caribbean Fish Sanctuary Partnership Initiative (“C-FISH”), a four-year (2012-2016) project on the management of 15 community-based “no take” zones or marine reserves in five Caribbean countries, was launched on 9 November 2012, in Bluefields, Jamaica.
The five countries are Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
C-FISH will partner with tourism companies to involve the tourism sector in support for the...
03 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 November 2012: The 11 signatory countries to the Declaration on the Application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development have agreed on the “Road Map for the Formulation of an Instrument on the Application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
The road map was agreed at the first meeting of focal points from signatory countries, which convened in November 2012, at UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)...
22 Nov 2012
This workshop is organized by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (CReW), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and several Caribbean governments. The workshop seeks to provide participants from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the environmental, finance and utility sectors in CReW’s 13 participating countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana,...
19 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 November 2012: The 43rd Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council adopted a Work Program that amounts to US$174 million and aims to benefit 63 countries.
The Council convened in Washington, DC, US, from 13-15 November 2012, at International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters. Representatives of governments, international organizations and civil society organizations (CSOs) attended the three-day meeting, which also included the 13th meeting of the Council for the Least Developed...
13 Nov 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
November 2012: The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) has released the September issue of “Capacité,” its quarterly newsletter for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Caribbean islands. The newsletter provides information on activities of CEPF-financed projects, as well as grants approved from July-September 2012.
The newsletter highlights activities including: the launch of the Caribbean Birding Trail; surveillance of Haiti’s Ricord’s Iguana...
