Sustainable development

Towards a Global Biodiversity Framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity - A Synthesis Document

CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett on Monday 5 September delivered the Second Distinguished Owen Arthur Memorial Lecture in Bridgetown, Barbados. The lecture was delivered under the theme ‘The Future of CARICOM; Charting a Vision for the Region’s Economic Advancement’.

It was organised by the the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Shridath Ramphal Centre, and the Caribbean Development Bank.

Please read the lecture below:

Honourable Minister of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, and Chair of the COTED – Environment, Mr. Shawn Edward

Honourable Ministers of Environment and Sustainable Development

Representatives of CARICOM Member States

Representatives of the OECS Commission

Representatives of Associate and Community Institutions

Special Invited Guests

CARICOM Secretariat Colleagues

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) office officially kicked off the new €6.85 million European Union funded initiative on climate change and health with the first Regional Partner Dialogue.

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