In a historic first in the fight to phase out mercury, countries gathered for the first ever Conference of Parties for the Minamata Convention (Minamata COP 1), held in Geneva in September 2017. At this platform, ACP MEAs...
Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean are particularly vulnerable to the ecological, economic and public health impacts of IAS, with rise in international trade, transportation and tourism in the region further...
To strengthen the knowledge of personnel in charge of compliance with and enforcement of multilateral environment agreements, specifically in the biodiversity cluster, the African Hub organized a training session with...
4 December 2016, CBD COP13, Cancun Mexico - The renewal of a partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands was signed on the sidelines of the...
Regional environmental officers are attending a workshop to help them prepare for a major international conference on biodiversity, to be held in Mexico in December. The CARICOM ACP-MEAs project is hosting the regional workshop...
New regulations governing environmental impact assessments on Niue are to be introduced soon. So ahead of time, a team from SPREP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, has been to the island to provide...
Protecting the environment on the atolls of Tokelau was at the heart of a recent visit to the territory by an advisory group from SPREP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Their mission was to offer...
New guidelines for environmental impact assessment (EIA) were launched at the twenty-seventh annual SPREP meeting in Niue this week. In the wake of increasing development in sectors such as tourism, land mining, energy and...
The fourth International Congress on Biodiversity of the Guiana Shield, which has received funding from the Caribbean Community CARICOM through the ACP-MEAs project, was held in Georgetown, Guyana recently. Check out this video...