(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to improve the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown, Guyana) The objective of the briefing organized by Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) and the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on April 23, 2007 is to disseminate the results of the IPCC’s latest assessment report on climate change and in particular the impacts on the Caribbean.
Salutations
On 6 April 2007, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fourth Assessment Report on climate change which focused on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability with regard to planet earth. The high level of confidence demonstrated in the methodology and in the quality data used in the preparation of the report, underscores the global concerns over the relationship between observed climate change and observed changes in the natural and human environment.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will convene a Donor Conference in Trinidad and Tobago on June 2, 2007 to supplement the Region’s ongoing financial and technical support for the expansion and diversification of the Region’s agricultural sector.
The Agriculture Donor Conference evolved from a mandate from the Eighteenth Inter-Sessional Heads of Government summit held in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines in February 2007.
Your Excellency, Ambassador Geert Heikens, Head of the European Commission Delegation in Guyana
Your Excellency, Mr. Fraser Wheeler, British High Commissioner
Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite
Assistant Secretaries-General
Representatives of the European Commission Delegation
Representative of the Embassy of Suriname
Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On Monday 23 April 2007, the CARICOM Secretariat will host a Press Briefing on climate change for the Caribbean media. Organized by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), and the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the briefing will highlight the results of the IPCC’s latest assessment report on climate change and in particular the impacts on the Caribbean.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government of France has identified as priority areas of cooperation with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), enhancing the rule of law, combatting all forms of trafficking, and providing assistance on sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Edwin Carrington has expressed gratitude to the government of France for its support to the Caribbean during the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) which concludes on April 28.
France readily acceded to the Region’s request for medical emergency facilities in support of its widespread efforts to ensure a safe and secure CWC, the Secretary General said.
Ambassador Jean-Paul Dumont, Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the Republic of France to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite
Assistant Secretaries-General
Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Excellency, in November of 2005, I was pleased to receive, on behalf of the Caribbean Community, the credentials of your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Boursin, as the French Republic’s first Ambassador accredited to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) History was created when Spain’s first Ambassador to CARICOM presented credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington on Tuesday 17 April at CARICOM Headquarters in Georgetown.
Ambassador Jesus Silva in remarks at the ceremony saw this development as the beginning of “another phase between the already deep relations between Spain and CARICOM”; one that signals Spain’s deepening political commitment to the Caribbean Region.