The Hon. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, addressed the High-Level Segment of the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, Colombia on Wednesday, 30 October 2024.
Please listen to her statement:
The Government of Belize, in partnership with the Statistical Institute of Belize, the CARICOM Secretariat, the United Nations Population Fund, the European Union, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, will host the 2024 CARICOM Statistics Meetings in Placencia, Belize. The Meetings began on 31 October and will conclude on 8 November 2024.
"In 2016, Belize faced a $20 million annual shortfall in biodiversity management. With today’s more ambitious goals, resource needs are even greater. Yet, accessing cooperation and finance remains challenging, hindering fast-tracked implementation of national biodiversity strategies.
"Barbados therefore wishes to reaffirm its commitment to the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) as well as to the monitoring and reporting on its implementation, and, in this regard, it is aligning its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) to the Global Biodiversity Framework.
"As part of our ongoing efforts, Guyana has undertaken a preliminary revision of its national biodiversity targets through an inclusive and consultative process.
"In an effort to provide constructive solutions, we believe there is room for CARICOM Regional Institutions, sensitive to the regional and national capabilities of CARICOM Memb
Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat held talks with their counterparts from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) on the margins of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Cali, Colombia.
“Now is surely an opportune time to transform our education system into one that has greater levels of resilience and delivers lessons that create a climate-aware citizenry. I am optimistic that decisions we will make in this Meeting will serve to secure these and other important outcomes.”
Chair of the 48th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) – Education and Grenada’s Minister of Education, Senator the Honourable David Andrew, says now is the time for education transformation and reshaping the sector to be resilient against current challenges. He highlighted adapting to changing technology, the need for education transformation and the threat of climate change as some of the critical areas of focus for the sector.
CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) Elizabeth Solomon says the Region agrees on a paradigm shift to align its education sector with the global agenda for education transformation.
The ASG made this declaration during her remarks at the 48th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) Education, taking place in Trinidad and Tobago, 24-25 October 2024.