PROFESSIONAL WOMEN involved in the local environment sector have applauded the New Green Deal, a United States Congressional resolution that lays out a plan to tackle climate change and which has been the subject of much debate between the...
RURAL YOUTH who got in on the conversation about climate change and Jamaica at a conference staged in Montego Bay last Friday have lauded the event as an important first. “For me, the conference was very informative on the whole climate change...
RURAL YOUTHs are to have the chance to get in on the conversation about climate change and Jamaica – from the threats to the opportunities for resilience building. Thanks to the funding supplied by the United Nations Development Programme, the...
THREE MONTHS into her new role as senior technical officer for adaptation with the Climate Change Division (CCD) of the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, and fresh from the recent global climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Le-Anne Roper...
FRESH FROM the recent climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Jhannel Tomlinson is now more inspired than ever to get other youth involved in the climate change response effort nationally.There is, she believes, too much at stake to do otherwise."When...
It has been more than a year since the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) announced its intention to go after funds to sustain its operations, having appointed a new leadership and awarded a new set of grants under the Forest Conservation...
THE Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius is reportedly on the table for discussion when Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries meet in Barbados later this month to prepare for the upcoming...
WITH NEW and additional financial flows needed for climate-resilience efforts in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean community, it is essential that both the private sector and government get up to speed - and fast - on the recently approved Summary for...
PROGRESS TOWARDS the approval of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius has been extremely limited, at the meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Korea this week...
THE UNIVERSITY of West Indies' Physics Department, in its ongoing effort to raise climate-change awareness and promote resilience, will today host a forum titled '100% Clean: The Why and How of Jamaica's Transition from Imported Fossil Fuels to...
ELEANOR JONES has made it her life's work to make a difference in environmental management in Jamaica and the Caribbean, sometimes with baby steps, at other times in seeming leaps and bounds.It's never been easy, but it's also never crossed her mind...
THE FORESTRY Department has confirmed that the field work for the delimitation of the boundary for the Cockpit Country - an area that has long inspired debate over its protection, fuelled by its ecological and historical value - has started.After...
IN ITS ongoing efforts to enable climate change mainstreaming across government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), the Climate Change Division (CCD) is taking designated representatives - called climate change focal points - into the field...
DOMINICA HAS come in for sharp criticism from BirdsCaribbean, a regional entity committed to the conservation of birds for more than three decades, over its decision to relocate a number of its rare species to Germany.The island reportedly exported...
FROM LIMITED scheduling and financing of infrastructure maintenance to inconsistent planning and limited consideration related to increased urbanisation and population growth, a new report has laid bare the climate vulnerabilities of Jamaica's...
BLUNTLY HONEST. Passionate. Pragmatic. These are words used to describe Mike Schwartz, an Englishman and engineer who made Jamaica his home for some three decades and worked unceasingly, from behind the scenes and in the public eye, to safeguard its...
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica has clarified its role in tsunami response following the warning issued for Jamaica last week."I am realising that some people are thinking we had a responsibility that we fell down on. We need to remind people...
THE GOVERNMENT is, over the next few months, to make official the recently designated boundary for the ecologically sensitive Cockpit Country."What we need to do now, since we are not putting up a wall, is be very clear on where the line is; your...
