Environment

This paper provides a sound basis for the consideration of trade in environmental services in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Zone. In the absence of specific information and data on the environmental service sector in the CSME, this work is considered as work in progress.

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has prepared this framework document at the request of CARICOM Heads of State participating in the First Congress for the Environmental Charter and Climatic Change, held at Ávila Mountain, Caracas, 11-13 October
2007.
 The strategic vision driving this regional strategy is to lay the ground for a “regional society and economy that is resilient to a changing climate.” The seriousness of the challenge global climate change (GCC) poses to the development prospects of small island and low-lying

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Amazon Project, the Global Environment Facility International Waters Learning Exchange & Resource Network (GEFIW:LEARN), the Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions (CATS) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the United Nations Environment Programme Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit (UNEP Car/RCU), convened the Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) Knowledge Network Forum, which was held in Saint

Waste and Chamicals Management in CARICOM Countries- Basel Convention.

This Handbook is intended to better equip officers to carry out MEAs-related  duties and, in doing so, to make a contribution to protection of the local, regional  and global environment.

This is the caricom implementation plan for the ‘regional framework for achieving development resilien t to climate change’ (the regional framework) which defines the region’s strategic approach for coping with climate change. CARICOM countries have considerable cause for concern a as the threats posed by a changing climate to their development prospects are severe and both mitigation and adaptation will require a significant and sustained investment of resources that the member states will be unable to provide on their own .

A CONCEPT NOTE ON TRADE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES_ TOWARDS THE FORMULATION OF A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK AND ACTION PLAN FOR THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY