MORE THAN 140 young people and team members at the Clarendon Youth Information Centre (YIC) are set to benefit from a solar energy project, financed by the Chinese Government to the tune of US$150,000.Under the project, launched in July 2016, the...
MORE THAN 100 youths turned out to learn and share their views on climate change at a recent forum held in St Elizabeth.The event, hosted at St Elizabeth Technical High School on March 2, was staged as part of the Government's Youth Environment and...
THE Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) has made its own additions to the environment wish list for 2018, with a call for a "government-appointed, broad-based stakeholder and bipartisan committee vested with the authority to craft a...
FROM ITS decision on a boundary for the ecologically sensitive Cockpit Country to moves regarding climate change and energy, government scored points with some key figures from the environment sector in 2017.Still, the consensus is that it has some...
THE CARIBBEAN'S research work on a world warmed to 1.5 degrees Celsius versus two degrees, and its impact on the region, recently went global, thanks to a presentation delivered by a respected local scientist at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany,...
WITH FUN, food, and yes, education; that's how the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT), managers of the island's Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, will kick off its 25th anniversary celebrations.They're doing so with a...
THE VOICE of Diana McCaulay has carried over the years, sometimes the only one, at other times the loudest, but always in advocacy for the conservation of Jamaica's natural resources, from the Cockpit Country to the Goat Islands.As age 65 beckons,...
AS SHE prepares to take the reins of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) in the new year, Suzanne Stanley is the first to admit she has a pair of rather large shoes to fill.But she is ready; after all, she has been groomed by one of the best, an...
THE FUTURE of the Adaptation Fund (AF), from which Jamaica and other small-island developing states have benefited as a source of climate change financing, remains in question.This follows the recent global climate talks that ended in Bonn, Germany...
IN A world where climate change is assessed as an imminent threat to many, and particularly small-island developing states (SIDS), the Caribbean is increasing its research efforts on the subject, with a focus on the impacts of a 1.5 degrees Celsius...
THE NEARLY 13,000 comments from expert reviewers worldwide on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) first draft of the special report on global warming of 1.5°C has put to bed any lingering doubts over its importance...
JAMAICA IS reportedly progressing in its effort to propose an alternative use of the funds that were allocated for a component one of its Adaptation Fund (AF) projects, which was terminated in the face of opposition from hotel interests in Negril."...
THE RECENT hurricanes that pummelled sections of the Caribbean, packing categories three to five punches, has pushed Jamaica's decades-long wait for a building act and enforceable, updated building code back into the spotlight.Only now, disaster...
WITH SOILS the second largest carbon store after oceans, one local scientist is insisting they must be given their due as Jamaica boosts efforts to minimise the threats of a changing climate."I think that any discussion surrounding climate change...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is moving to reclassify recreational water bodies to ensure the most important areas are protected from the negative impacts of pollution.This is in accordance with its obligations under the...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has accused the authorities of giving up on clean air for the communities around Spanish Town Road in the vicinity of the Riverton City Landfill and for persons travelling along the Mandela Highway.More than six...
Having uncovered anomalies in the data collected on Jamaica's water quality, local environmentalists have called for a temporary closure and review of the island's monitoring system, administered by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA...
THE RECENT rash of hurricanes to affect the Caribbean has lent urgency to efforts to shore up the climate change preparedness of Jamaica's multi-million-dollar tourism industry."The Caribbean is one of the most tourism-dependent regions in the world...
WITH THE devastation caused by hurricanes Harvey and others as the fuel, Jamaica is to continue its push for financing and other support to treat with loss and damage due to climate change events, at the annual climate talks set this year for Bonn,...
IN THE aftermath of the punishing blows dealt by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and now Maria, local pundits believe the United States (US) could be forced to rethink its stance on climate change.They, however, stopped short of predicting what that could...
THE BLUDGEONING delivered by hurricanes Irma and Harvey has brought into sharp focus the financing needs of developing countries, and, in particular, those of small-island developing states (SIDS) for adaptation and loss and damage from climate...
AFTER YEARS of lobby for a Cockpit Country boundary, advocates for the environment are cautiously optimistic their wait for Government's decision on the matter may soon end.This is thanks to recent utterances from Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett, who...
WITH ITS ruggedly beautiful landscape, rich biological diversity, storied past and warm people, Jamaica's Ministry of Tourism has eyes on Cockpit Country as it moves to expand community tourism."We are in fact just beginning to explore the many key...
The long-term sustainability of the biodiversity-rich Cockpit Country trumps any short-term financial gains to be derived from the extractive industry, according to Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett."The matter of trying to balance the extractive...
Jamaica has reportedly signalled its intent to propose an alternate use of the funds that were allocated for component one of its Adaptation Fund (AF) project, which, up to last year, was subject to public scrutiny amid opposition from Negril...
