Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 November 2010: The 17th Extraordinary Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) took place from 17-27 November in Paris, France, bringing together over 500 delegates from 35 contracting parties, including Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu.
The Commission reviewed the status of tuna stocks and by caught species, including sharks and turtles, in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The contracting parties...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 December 2010: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted two resolutions calling on all States to bolster their support for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and highlighting the specific challenges faced by small island developing States (SIDS), among other things.
The two resolutions are: the UNGA’s 38-page omnibus resolution on “oceans and the law of the sea” (A/RES/65/37); and the resolution on “sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 June 2011: The World Bank Board of Directors has approved two projects in the Caribbean, amounting to US$47.12 million, to improve the safety of their buildings from the impacts of climate change and increase their public institutions’ capacity to assess natural risks. The funding is from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), which is geared toward vulnerable countries and small island developing States (SIDS).
The PPCR was set up in 2008 as a...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 July 2011: The 11th issue of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre’s (CCCCC) Climate Change News Update, which compiles international and regional climate change-related news, highlights the World Bank’s US$47.12 million Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Projects, which aims to help Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to climate-proof their buildings and increase their public institutions’ capacity to assess natural risks.
The issue also reports on a World Bank...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 July 2011: The second meeting of the Caribbean Wetlands Initiative discussed the region’s implementation of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention), and resulted in agreement on activities and material to be presented and disseminated during the upcoming Pan-American meeting and the 11th meeting of the contracting parties (COP 11) to the Ramsar Convention.
The meeting took place in Kralendijk, on the island of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean, from 4-9...
