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Over the past few decades, people around the world have been mobilized every year to participate in cleanup activities along beaches, river banks, and even, underwater.
“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
https://youtu.be/j0FHWQSAP1M
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).
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“What on Earth is BBNJ?”
Are you from a Small Island Developing State and in the 15-24 age group?
Do you have a talent for writing, photography, creating music or artwork?
Then this international competition for youths may be for you!
https://youtu.be/RnpKF8VDaP8
At the United Nations (UN) Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, held in New York in June 2017, OSPAR Commission (OSPAR) and the Cartagena Convention (CEP) registered a voluntary commitment to collaborate across the Atlantic.
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.
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.
Plastic pollution is one of the most relevant and important issues of our time. Plastic has gradually become a part of our everyday life, but this is no longer tenable. The traditional linear production, use and disposal model for conventional plastics is ecologically unsustainable and has caused adverse and unacceptable environmental harm.
The problem of marine litter and debris knows no bounds- even in the Mid-Atlantic.
“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
Kingston, Jamaica.
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.
To preserve our coal reefs in the Caribbean, we must begin by protecting the Parrotfish. Parrotfishes have significant ecological value to the survival pf coral reefs.
They feed on algae by scraping it from coral on the reef, thereby reducing its negative impact on the coral reef ecosystem.
The below infographic, available in English and Spanish, outlines more facts about the Parrotfish.
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.
Mr. Christopher Corbin will be a guest (regional expert) on next Monday’s (18th March) simulcast and phone in programme (Helen 100; HTS; & Calabash).
The topic is: Is clear water clean water? By Ms. Nadia Cazaubon.
Discussions will likely include the following:
The session, set to begin Wednesday 13th of March 2019, will explore work on marine litter and microplastics across the world through the 18 Regional Seas Programmes. An overview of current work will be presented along with an assessment of different region’s action plans on marine litter. Audience will have the chance to interact with representatives from different Regional Seas Programmes.
Haiti’s Canal De La Gonave is a unique marine ecosystem, with two underwater canyons that drop to over 10,000 feet. This marine ecosystem is threatened by several factors: pollution (e.g. marine debris), non-native species invasions (e.g.
Many species of marine mammals, including small cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), are maintained in captivity (including both tanks and sea-pens) for the stated purposes of entertainment, research or education, and in some cases military use. In recent years, the ethics of capturing and maintaining marine mammals in captivity have increasingly come into question.
90% of Guyana’s population live on flat coastal plains, 0.5 metres below sea level. The soil is rich and good for agriculture but at risk from rising sea levels.
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.
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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.