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Key decisions related to work of the Secretariat to the Cartagena Convention for the 2021-2022 biennium are expected to be formulated when delegates meet from June 21-25, 2021 and July 26-30, 2021.
Today, on World Oceans Day 2021, the Secretariat launched the second edition of its marine mammal campaign on its social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). This public education initiative aims to raise awareness on the threats to marine mammals, particularly those listed under our SPAW Protocol and encourage individual and collective action to protect these species.
On 12th May 2021, the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) in collaboration with the Secretariat’s Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-Programme and the SPAW Regional Activity Centre, hosted a webinar on fisheries subsidies and their effects on sustainable fishing.
Ocean pollution from poorly managed sanitation is a global health and environmental issue with massive downstream consequences for coastal communities and marine ecosystems
New SNAPP project, “Improving human and coastal ecosystem health through better wastewater pollution management”, jumpstarts a multi-disciplinary collaboration between sanitation
In an effort to strengthen the response of Caribbean countries to address the environmental concerns they face and enhance their capacities to fully engage in Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) implementation, the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Cartagena Convention, along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are jointly implementing a 5-year progra
World Oceans Day on June 8 celebrates the underwater world whose abundant marine resources sustain the land above it. Some of these resources and ecosystems, such as the overlooked seagrass, mighty mangroves, and colourful corals offer potent, nature-based solutions to climate change and sustainable development.
Diseases passed from animals to humans are on the rise, as the world continues to see unprecedented destruction of wild habitats by human activity. Scientists suggest that degraded habitats may encourage more rapid evolutionary processes and diversification of diseases, as pathogens spread easily to livestock and humans.
On the eve of a critical year for environmental decision-making, Colombia, Germany and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that Colombia will host World Environment Day 2020 in partnership with Germany and that it will focus on biodiversity.
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.
Barbados will host the Intercessional Forum for Ministers of Environment from Latin America and the Caribbean, from Tuesday, November 5, until Wednesday November 6.
President of the Forum of Ministers of Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean, Minister of Environment and National Beautification, Trevor Prescod, will chair the meeting, which takes place at Hilton Barbados, Needhams Point, St. Michael.
Head of the Caribbean Sub-Regional Office, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Vincent Sweeney, says the organisation fully endorses the Rae Town Plastic Recycling Pilot Project, in Kingston, being implemented as a viable option to improve and diversify the country’s solid waste management programme.
The 1st International Conference on Sargassum was successfully hosted in Guadeloupe. The event which took place from October 23-26, 2019 brought together stakeholders from the Caribbean and other countries of the world to discuss the issue of sargassum.
Pilot: Solid Waste Reduction Project in Bluefields & Whitehouse, Westmoreland, Jamaica
Solid Waste Reduction Project
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.
On September 21, 2019, several groups around the world rallied together to take part in beach cleanups in celebration of International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day. The United Nations Country Team in Jamaica was once again onboard to support this movement to raise awareness about poor solid waste management and catalyze action by local citizens to control, reduce and prevent marine litter and plastic pollution.
“The Caribbean is the second most plastic-contaminated sea in the world after the Mediterranean Sea. Estimations of the volume of plastic waste in this area range from 600 to 1,414 plastic items per square kilometer in different locations.” - Report on Status of Styrofoam and Plastic Bag Bans in the Wider Caribbean, UNEP – Caribbean Environment Programme, May 2019
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Kingston, Jamaica. July 25, 2019. The Cartagena Convention Secretariat, based in Kingston, Jamaica, is pleased to announce that on June 29, 2019 the Government of Barbados acceded to its Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (LBS).
Kingston, Jamaica. 17th June 2019. From 3rd - 6th June 2019, over 80 regional and international experts including government officials, non-governmental organizations, development partners and United Nations (UN) agencies met in Honduras to review the achievements of the Cartagena Convention Secretariat over the last two years (2017-2018) and to agree on priorities for the 2019-2020 biennium.
“Our world is swamped by harmful plastic waste. Microplastics in the seas now outnumber stars in our galaxy. From remote islands to the Artic, nowhere is untouched. If present trends continue, by 2050, our oceans will have more plastic than fish. The message is simple: reject single use plastic. Refuse what you can't reuse. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world.” - António Guterres United Nations Secretary General (World Environment Day 2018)
Regional Experts look forward to finding solutions for common challenges in the Wider Caribbean Region
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Perceptions
When people all over the world think of the Caribbean, turquoise seas, clean beaches, coral reefs teeming with a variety of fish, turtles and other sea creatures, balmy breezes …come to mind.
On Friday May 10, 2019 the Mount Airy Community Football Field in Northern Clarendon welcomed scores of residents from communities in the area to the launch of the UN Human Security Joint Programme and Community Fair.
On Tuesday May 7, staff members of the Secretariat to the Cartagena Convention and the UN Environment Caribbean Sub-Regional Office (CSRO) joined members of the public and private sector in Jamaica in taking part in the annual Read Across Jamaica Day activity. This year, UN Environment-CEP staff read to students in Grades 2MF and 5 at St. Anne’s Primary School in Downtown, Kingston.
The Global Environment Facility-funded Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF IWEco) Project’s Third Regional Project Steering Committee Meeting (RPSC 3) will take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 2nd – 4th April 2019.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, March 21st, 2019 – The Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (EHSD) Department of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), based in Saint Lucia, operates at the nexus between health and the environment. With this mandate, water security (including quantity and quality) is central to CARPHA’s support of its 26 Member States.
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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.