Trinidad and Tobago
13 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 February 2013: The Low Emission Capacity Building Programme (LECBP) has hosted a webinar that introduced LECBP country teams and other practitioners to an approach developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to prioritizing nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). The approach has been tested and implemented in Trinidad and Tobago, Bangladesh and Kenya.
A report and presentations from the webinar, held on 17 January 2013, have been made available...
13 Feb 2013
The Basel Convention Regional Coordinating Centre - Caribbean (BCRC), together with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is hosting this workshop to enhance implementation of the Stockholm Convention in the Caribbean Region. The workshop will identify priority areas for support in chemical and waste management as they apply to the production, phasing out and elimination of intentional/unintentional Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs/UPOPs) in the region. [ for more information: http://sids-l...
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...
25 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) has launched a section of its Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform on the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The page on the OWG - the establishment of which was recently agreed in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) - is part of a broader section on the SDGs and related resources.
The webpage includes information on: the UN System Technical Support Team (TST); the text from the UN Conference on...
19 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 December 2012: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved US$246.5 million as the first of a three-phase, US$546.5 million programme to reduce discharge of untreated wastewater in Trinidad and Tobago.
US$234.4 million of the first-phase loan will finance the construction of two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and trunk sewers collection systems for the San Fernando and Malabar wastewater catchment areas. Neither Malabar, with a population of 70,000 that is projected to rise...
