On December 9, 2020, the Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) collaborated with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and Magna Rewards Jamaica Ltd. to launch a Supermarket Plastic Recyclables Drop Off Programme. The programme was launched by Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Lee’s Food Fair...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is encouraging private-sector stakeholders to support the third phase of the national ban on single-use plastics, being implemented on January 1, 2021. This phase relates to the importation, distribution, manufacture and use of single-use plastic bags of dimension 24”x24” and below, and thickness of 2.5 mils or...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has affirmed Jamaica’s commitment to sustainably manage 100 per cent of the country’s national waters to aid in protecting the ocean’s resources globally. This is in keeping with a new ocean action agenda focusing on developing a sustainable ocean economy, by effectively balancing conservation and sustainable use of the resources of the sea....

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says the recently held plastic waste management conference was critical and timely as the Government gears up to implement the third phase of the ban on single-use plastics come January 2021. “The conference aimed to create a platform to facilitate the active exchange of information among key...

The Government is to roll out a programme aimed at safely disposing of the millions of used tyres generated in the country annually, which will result in a reduction in costs associated with storing them. This follows Cabinet’s approval of the National Programme for the Environmentally Sound Management of End-of-Life Pneumatic Tyres. End-of-life tyres are those that could not or...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says he will be making an announcement shortly on the third phase of the Government’s ban on single-use plastic, which takes effect in January 2021. This phase will incorporate single-use plastic bags with dimensions 24 x 24 inches and above with thickness of 2.5 mils “A ban...

Leaders of Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Palau and Portugal commit to sustainably manage nearly 30 million sq km of their national waters by 2025 Leaders put a healthy ocean at the top of the global policy agenda to accelerate economic recovery The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel)...

Jamaica has been designated the lead national authority among seven Caribbean countries for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) project, which is being undertaken through a US$1.2-million grant. “The initiative seeks to build on a number of other GCF initiatives and will seek to scale up innovative climate change solutions among civil society organisations/non-governmental organisations (NGOs),” said...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is calling on the country’s youth to actively participate in the national initiative to plant three million trees over three years and to influence others to also get involved. “Young people, it is for you to be the agitators, the coordinators and the instigators of tree planting...