To accelerate contribution to global targets on access to safe and reliable water supplies and improved sanitation by populations in the Caribbean, and contributing to the enhancement of the functioning of ecosystems of global importance within the Caribbean Sea basin and Caribbean SIDS in consideratioon of adapatation to climate change stressors, through the implementation of an integrated approach to water, land and ecosystems services management, supported by policy, institutional and legislative reforms, and implementation of more effective appropriate technologies and methodologies, and dissemination of best practices to beneficiaries across the globe.
Land-Based Sources/Coastal Zone
Antigua and Barbuda , Bahamas , Barbados , Cuba , Dominican Republic , Grenada , Jamaica , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Trinidad and Tobago , Regional
LME,Coastal
Partners
To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
UN Environment established the Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) in 1981 as one of its Regional Seas Programmes 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. Countries of the region then adopted an Action Plan (also in 1981) that led to the development and adoption of the Cartagena Convention on 24 March 1983. The Cartagena Convention promotes the protection and development of the marine environment of the Region and provides the legal framework for the CEP. It is supported by three technical agreements or protocols coordinated by dedicated regional activity centers for Oil Spills, Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife and Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution.
Contacts
Communications Specialist
Programme Assistant