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(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 (IEA) tools for mainstreaming those agreements into national policy development.

(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 Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The critical importance of cooperation among like-minded nations to combat the vagaries of climate change was important against the increasingly devastating effects related disasters posed to Small Island Developing States.

  Madame Chair
Dr. Greene
Ms. Recio
Mr. Barnwell
Representatives of International Organisations
Members of the Media
Special Invitees

Good morning all. It is my pleasure to welcome you - those visiting as well as our local colleagues to this workshop. I understand that for the coming days, this forum would be addressing needs prioritization as they relate to Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Regional stakeholders, on Tuesday, placed on the discussion table, several critical challenges affecting the Caribbean’s capacity to meet their obligations in implementing Multi-lateral Environment Agreements (MEAs).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat with the assistance of the European Commission (EC), is seeking to build the capacity of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, to comply with the implementation of Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). This is expected to boost those countries’ management of their environment and natural resources.

I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the Secretary-General of the CARIFORUM Member States who because of conflicting obligations could not be here today. I bring you greetings in his name and on behalf of CARIFORUM, which comprises six small island developing and low lying coastal states, each with distinct characteristics, but all being apart of the family we know as the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.