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UN Environment Event
WEBINAR: Biodiversity - We're all interconnected
27 May 2020
- Overview
The webinar will explore the role of UNEP in the Caribbean regarding the conservation of biodiversity and their habitats and promote concepts and values that encourage the audience to understand the role of each species in maintaining ecosystem balance and the importance of protecting them
Agenda Topics Include:
The State of Caribbean Biodiversity: Challenges, Opportunities and Link to Human Well-being: Christopher Cox, Task Manager, Caribbean portfolio, GEF Biodiversity and Land Degradation Unit, UNEP Latin America and the Caribbean
Diving into the current state of mangroves, Seagrass beds and coral reefs in the wider Caribbean: Ileana Lopez, SPAW Programme Officer, UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat
Conserving Biodiversity through Integrated Land, Water and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean SIDS-Donna Sue Spencer, Communications Specialist, GEF-IWECO Project
Date: May 27, 2020
Time: 12:30pm (Kingston, Jamaica)
Watch Webinar:
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.