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CARICOM Customs Handbook: Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

This CARICOM Customs Handbook serves as a practical enforcement guide for customs and border control officers on trade-related provisions of key multilateral environmental agreements, including Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm, CITES, the Montreal Protocol, and the Cartagena Protocol. It explains legal o...

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, integr...

Training Module: Achieving National and Sectoral Development Priorities: Using Integrated Environmental Assessment Tools for Improved MEA Implementation

This CARICOM training module introduces integrated environmental assessment (IEA) tools to help governments mainstream multilateral environmental agreements into national and sectoral development planning. It provides step-by-step methods for mapping MEA priorities, identifying synergies, setting ta...

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...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Fact Sheet

A CARICOM Secretariat fact sheet explaining CITES, including its vision statement, institutional structure, party obligations, and how the CITES appendices regulate international trade in listed species to help prevent unsustainable exploitation and biodiversity loss. ...

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 P...

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

A CARICOM factsheet describing the Stockholm Convention and its global efforts to eliminate or reduce persistent organic pollutants that pose risks to human health and the environment....

CARICOM Trains More Environmental Negotiators in MEANegotiations -workshop Lauded A Phenomenal Success

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A five-day training intervention on negotiation skills for junior environmental negotiators ended in St Kitts and Nevis on Friday with the consensus that Negotiators play a vital role in the process of implementing Multilateral Environmenta...

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...

CARICOM MOVES TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATORS

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ) A five –day training intervention for the Caribbean Region’s environmental negotiators opened in St Kitts and Nevis on Monday, 28 May 2012. The workshop, which will be held at the Ocean Terrace Inn, is organized by the CARICOM...

CARICOM Customs Handbook: Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

CARICOM GETS HELP FROM JAPAN TO DEVELOP ENVIRONMENT POLICY

Training Module: Achieving National and Sectoral Development Priorities: Using Integrated Environmental Assessment Tools for Improved MEA Implementation

Saint Lucia hosts regional workshops on multilateral environmental agreements

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Fact Sheet

CARICOM SECRETARIAT CONDUCTS ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

CARICOM Trains More Environmental Negotiators in MEANegotiations -workshop Lauded A Phenomenal Success

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

CARICOM MOVES TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATORS

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