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The Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF CReW+) project will focus on further improving integrated water and wastewater management in the Wider Caribbean.

The Economist Group's World Ocean Initiative has launched the Women and the ocean: Changemakers challenge which aims to showcase leading female changemakers across the ocean supply chain who are working to develop business solutions to achieve ocean-related sustainability. The goal is to ensure that their contribution is recognised and elevated.

The MoU was signed in September 2019 in keeping with recommendations and decisions emanating from the 8th SPAW STAC (STAC8) held in Panama (December 2018), and 15th COP to the Cartagena Convention (COP15) held in Honduras (June 2019), respectively.

The Caribbean is home to more than 700 islands and coastal countries that are connected by a shared resource - the Caribbean Sea.  This Sea forms the lifeblood of the region’s tourism, maritime and fisheries industries.   However, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, valuable coastal and marine resources are under increasing threat from land and marine-based sources of pollution.

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As co-hosts of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter-Caribbean Node, the Cartagena Convention Secretariat and the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute will launch a social media campaign from July 1-31, 2019 to raise awareness on plastic pollution and encourage the use of alternative products and practices.

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, WEDNESDAY, 23 January 2019 (CRFM)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) has initiated a regional fact-finding study to document the record-breaking influx of Sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean Sea in 2018, and the impacts this phenomenon has been having on countries in the region since 2011.

UNEP’s Caribbean Environment Programme reminds of the deadly impact of Marine litter in the Ocean in recognition of World Oceans Day June 8th was World Oceans Day, designated by the United Nations as a global day to highlight the value of our oceans. We often don’t realize the significance of our oceans though they cover over 70% of the earth’s surface, support humankind, the greatest biodiversity on the planet, and, regulate the world’s climate.

The Caribbean is home to more than 700 islands and coastal countries that are connected by a shared resource - the Caribbean Sea.  This Sea forms the lifeblood of the region’s tourism, maritime and fisheries industries.   However, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, valuable coastal and marine resources are under increasing threat from land and marine-based sources of pollution.