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As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework comes to a close in 2015, the Caribbean Region is advocating for a comprehensive and transformative Post 2015 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) development agenda. The goal of advocacy efforts will be to ensure that Caribbean specific priorities for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment are advanced. The emerging global development frameworks must address the structural foundations of gender-based inequality, including the recognition that inequalities are a consequence of the unequal relations of power.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda to be adopted this year, according to the final MDG report launched today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging shortfalls that remain.

In follow-up to the launch of the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative (CESI) in June 2014, the Vice President, Secretary of Energy Moniz, other senior Administration officials, Caribbean Heads of Government, multilateral development banks, and other international partners participated in the Caribbean Energy Security Summit January 26 in Washington, D.C. to work together in support of Caribbean energy security.

This report analyses the state of the energy sector and energy policy in seven small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities in the countries. The report provides an overview of the status and recent developments in the seven SIDS, followed by more detailed individual reviews of the state of their energy sector and energy plans, projects and policies.

This paper seeks to examine the Caribbean shipping industry from three perspectives_

1. Efficiency and adequacy of the maritime transport service and infrastructure  

2. Opportunities for employment for Caribbean nationals

3. State of environmental machinery to protect the Caribbean Sea Basin.  

The Caribbean Community, CARICOM, consists of 15 full member countries with a total population of about 15 million people. There are 5 associate member states with a total population of about 164,000. These populations are of different sizes and are diverse in people, language, skills and levels of development - economic and social . In general, the Caribbean is disadvantaged with respect to their small size and small economies that limit resources and investments.

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 creative industries have emerged to be a key growth sector in the Caribbean economy through its contribution to GDP, exports, and employment as well as its impact on destination and intellectual property branding. The region has created for decades many globally recognizable artists and events that have generated global reach beyond what the region’s size would suggest.