High Commissioner of Saint Kitts and Nevis to Canada, Ambassador Sherry Tross, will Sunday represent the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at a European Union/Organisation of African Caribbean and Pacific States/United Nations Environment Programme High Level Event at COP15.
CARICOM delegates head to Montreal, Canada, for the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) (COP15) gearing up to create targets on biodiversity for the next decade.
The Conference, from December 7-19, will be held under the Presidency of China.
Importantly, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is expected to be adopted during this second phase of the conference.
Supported by the European Union-funded project for Capacity-Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements in African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries (ACP-MEAS) and executed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the workshop was held to familiarise environmental officials with the operational aspects of COP15, scheduled for Montreal, Canada, from 7-19 December. The workshop was coordinated by the Sustainable Development sub-programme within the CARICOM Secretariat, which is implementing the Caribbean component of the ACP-MEAS Project.