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Innovation is alive and well at CARIFESTA XI

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Two of the most innovative aspects of CARIFESTA were declared open on Monday in Paramaribo, Suriname with the Caribbean Market Place for the Arts and the Youth Village.

CARICOM GETS HELP FROM JAPAN TO DEVELOP ENVIRONMENT POLICY

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Environmental Policy and Action Programme is being developed with the assistance of the Government of Japan.

With financing from the Japan-CARICOM Friendship and Cooperation Fund (JCFCF), a regional, integrated policy to ensure protection of the environment and the natural resources will be developed to address selected environmental themes and economic sectors, which have been prioritised by the Community.

Saint Lucia hosts regional workshops on multilateral environmental agreements

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) will come under focus later this month when two workshops are convened in Saint Lucia to address harmonized reporting by Caribbean countries, and the use of Integrated Environment Assessment (IEA) tools for mainstreaming those agreements into national policy development.

CARICOM SECRETARIAT CONDUCTS ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat are currently visiting Member States to assess their current position regarding statistics on the environment.

The team from the Secretariat’s Regional Statistics Programme is currently in Antigua and Barbuda after leaving Dominica on Thursday following a two-day visit. The team moves on to Jamaica on Monday, 26 November.

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENT ISSUES AS IMPORTANT AS ECONOMIC IN DEVELOPMENT - SG

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ) Any framework for economic stability and growth should also address social protection policies for the poor and vulnerable groups in our society.

This was the view of the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque as he addressed the opening of the Twenty-Fourth Session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

ADAPT FOREIGN POLICY COORDINATING TO CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) foreign policy coordination in a constantly changing international climate was the common thread running through the addresses at the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) in Paramaribo, Suriname, Thursday 3 May 2012.

PEOPLE AT THE HEART OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CARICOM ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS

(Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The region’s sustainable development rests heavily on its human capital. This is the consensus of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers and other officials at the 39th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment and Sustainable Development.

CARICOM ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS MEET TO TACKLE RIO+20 AGENDA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 39th Special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), slated for Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, will provide the last ministerial platform for environment and sustainable development ministers to frame a regional strategic approach for the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.