(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) H.E. Edwin Carrington Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has acknowledged the “sterling contribution” professionals of the Caribbean have made to global environment management.

At the opening of the Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the environment, the Secretary-General congratulated the team of technical persons - Drs. Ulric Trotz, Anthony Chen, John Agard, and Leonard Nurse “who worked tirelessly on the Inter-Governmental Panel for Climate Change and who have been duly recognized for their contribution to this process with the award of a Nobel Peace Prize. “

The Secretary-General also congratulated Senator Angela Cropper on her appointment to the post of Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Senator Cropper was once a Director in the CARICOM Secretariat and has made lasting contributions to environmental management in the Region, such as the Caribbean Sea Assessment for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

“It is clear therefore, that the Region is not without world class human resources in this field of endeavour. We therefore have no excuse if we do not lend our efforts to this struggle to manage our environment, he said.