KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's government says an estimated 700,000 farmers across six central parishes will benefit from the US$50-million Green Climate Fund (GCF) project aimed at enhancing the climate resilience of vulnerable farmers over the next five years.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Belize and Guyana have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in the conservation, sustainable management, and protection of forests.

ROSEAU, Dominica – A new initiative to enhance the safeguarding of Dominica’s national bird, the Imperial Amazon (Amazona imperialis), has been launched to bolster conservation efforts across the island.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnet says the regional integration grouping is advancing coordinated regional actions on climate finance, ocean governance and biodiversity protection to strengthen its preparedness and engagement ahead of major global environmental engagements.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government is expected to ratify the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol of the Cartagena Convention within the next three months, Water, Environment, and Climate Change Minister, Matthew Samuda, has said.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A senior official of the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat says a regional biodiversity technical and scientific cooperation centre as a strategic investment in the Caribbean region’s future.

SONGDO – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says it supports the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and has approved a US$50 million project to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable smallholders in Jamaica.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, Professor Dale Webber, has lauded the country’s Adaptation Fund Programme (GOJ/AFP), saying that the initiative could become a “model for resilience building in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, Friday urged regional governments and organizations to push for the establishment of a new international climate compensation fund (ICIC) to help deal with the impact of climate change , especially  among small island developing states (SIDS).

HAMILTON, Bermuda — A long-promised bill aimed at reducing single-use plastic pollution was tabled in Parliament on Friday, eight years after it was first proposed.

BELMOPAN, Belize - The Belize government Tuesday said it has signed an agreement with Guatemala, and Mexico strengthening cooperation in the conservation and sustainable management of the Greater Maya Forest, one of the largest and most significant tropical forest systems in the Americas.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The World Bank director for the Caribbean, Lilia Burunciuc, says across much of the Caribbean, water and the systems that deliver it are increasingly under pressure.