Caribbean countries are accessing climate finance with support from the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth’s Climate Finance Access Hub is helping to improve Caribbean countries’ access to climate finance. In Barbados: The Commonwealth is providing Barbados technical assistance to strengthen its access to climate finance by designing six projects ranging in value from US$90,000 to 10,000,000. The projects are being prepared by the …
Five renewable energy projects to watch in the Caribbean
New Energy Events highlights five Caribbean renewable energy projects they’re keeping an eye on. They are: Paradise Park, 37 MW Solar PV, Jamaica Developer: Eight Rivers Energy Company The largest solar plant in the Caribbean is exected to come online in mid-2018. At the time of signing, the 8.54 US …
Guadeloupe’s banana industry is becoming more sustainable
From the International News, a report on how banana cultivation in Guadeloupe is becoming more environmentally friendly: Yellow is the new green in the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe. Bananas are the island group´s top agricultural export, and there is growing awareness that farming practices need to change as yields …
Greening the Caribbean: award-winning Saint Lucian waste management company
From the Saint Lucia Star, a profile of Greening the Caribbean, a Saint Lucian waste management company that has won international awards for sustainable entrepreneurship: It’s not easy convincing companies to care about their waste but Saint Lucian entrepreneur Wayne Neale is doing just that. Managing Director of waste management …
Hundreds discover St. Martin wildlife at Endemic Animal Festival
Les Fruit de Mer media release — Nearly 300 people learned about the animals that live only on St. Martin at the fifth annual Endemic Animal Festival on Sunday. They were welcomed by over 30 volunteers and experts sharing diverse topics like nature in St. Martin literature, sharks, iguanas, native plants …
Calls for a contaminated land inventory for Trinidad and Tobago
Environmentalists in Trinidad and Tobago are warning that there are several contaminated sites across the country that are having adverse impacts on the environment and human health and well-being: A Joint Select Committee of Parliament inquiring into waste management policies has been told that as an industrialised country T&T needs …
How low-input agriculture helps Cuba’s coral reefs stay healthy
The key takeaway from this bioGraphic article is “Every decision you make on land affects the ocean as well.” Especially for islands: [W]hen the Soviet bloc fell in the early 90s, it abruptly turned off the spigot for Cuba’s sugar subsidies and regular shipments of food, gasoline, farming equipment, synthetic fertilizers, …