The Sandals Foundation has produced a video highlighting the main activities of the Whitehouse and Bluefields Solid Waste Reduction Project in Jamaica.

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.

Biodiversity for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean through Ecosystem Based Management (EBM-DSS) was a 4-year project (2015-2019) implemented under our  Marine Biodiversity Sub-Programme in the Dominican Republic.

The Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS) Protocol (signed in 1999 and adopted in 2010) and the Caribbean Regional Action Plan for Marine Litter (RAPMaLI) (developed in 2008 and updated in 2010) are regional frameworks for our marine litter projects and activities.

Highlights this issue includes:-
- Meeting of Contracting Parties to the Cartagena Convention and its Protocols
- CARIMAM Workshop
- Managing the Sargassum outbreak in the Wider Caribbean Region
- Caribcoast
- Arrival of 2 project officers at SPAW-RAC
- Caribaea Initiative
- Coral Restoration Consortium
- Final year of the BEST 2.0 Programme

Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Saint Lucia.

Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Aruba.

Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Suriname.

Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Response to Future Climatic Conditions in the Marine and Coastal Regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, and the Northeast Coast of South America.

WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Belize.