CARICOM
04 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 May 2012: Two Caribbean climate experts are visiting the central Pacific island of Kiribati to study and learn lessons from the climate challenges faced by atoll countries. The visit was arranged as part of the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) project on “South-South Cooperation between Pacific and Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS) on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management.”
David Farrell, Caribbean Institute of Meteorology, and Lorna Inniss,...
04 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
28 May 2012: At the fourth meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Caribbean’s Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) for the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation (MSI) of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) for the Sustainable Development of small island developing States (SIDS), it was decided that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean would review how best to strengthen regional coordination...
01 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 May 2012: As Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque accepted the credentials of Yoshimasa Tezuka, new Plenipotentiary Representative of Japan to CARICOM, he stressed the importance of climate change and disaster management cooperation with Japan.
LaRocque qualified cooperation on climate change as “fundamental,” stressing that to the small island States and low-lying coastal countries of CARICOM, climate change is not an abstract concept, but rather...
01 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 June 2012: Forty negotiators from CARIFORUM countries, which include Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member States, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, took part in a training workshop to better represent their national and regional interests in negotiations involving multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
The workshop, which took place in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, from 28 May – 1 June 2012, was organized by the CARICOM Secretariat with support from the UN Environment...
31 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 May 2012: The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) held Region RAP 2012, a region-wide test of its emergency communications procedures, plans and networks for coordinating response to disasters.
The test, conducted on 25 May 2012, involved the Regional Coordinating Centre at the CDEMA Coordinating Unit (CU), the four Sub-Regional Operational Focal Points and National Disaster Organizations in the 18 participating States.
Region RAP 2012 involved a multiple island strike...
