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Work Ongoing To Identify Disaster Prone Areas In Jamaica To Reduce Risk To Citizens – Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal Environment and Climate Change, HURECC, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., has emphasized the need for increased awareness, preparedness prediction, and warning systems considering the risks posed by a changing climate. According to Minister Charles, natural hazards...
Staff from the Public Health Department of the NSWMA/Western Parks and Markets (WMP) Waste Management Limited remove bulky waste from a mini dump site in Irwin, St. James, during a community clean-up and sensitisation exercise recently, in observation of Earth Day 2021.
Staff from the Public Health Department of the NSWMA/Western Parks and Markets (WMP) Waste Management Limited remove bulky waste from a mini dump site in Irwin, St. James, during a community clean-up and sensitisation exercise recently, in observation of Earth Day 2021.

Clean-Up Exercise In Several St. James Communities
Participants in the U.S. Embassy’s #300Trees Initiative (l-r) Standpipe Community Representatives Lavern Johnson and Doreen Moodie, Representative of the Mona Primary School, Alex Hepburn, Principal, Hope Valley Experimental, Anthony Grant, Media Personality and co-host of Farm Chicks Debbie Bissoon, Executive Marketing Advisor, Operation Help the People, Carlyle Grant, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy, Robert ‘Bobby’ Adelson, Petagay Gentles and Jovaughn Neil of the University of the West Indies Guild of Students.
Participants in the U.S. Embassy’s #300Trees Initiative (l-r) Standpipe Community Representatives Lavern Johnson and Doreen Moodie, Representative of the Mona Primary School, Alex Hepburn, Principal, Hope Valley Experimental, Anthony Grant, Media Personality and co-host of Farm Chicks Debbie Bissoon, Executive Marketing Advisor, Operation Help the People, Carlyle Grant, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy, Robert ‘Bobby’ Adelson, Petagay Gentles and Jovaughn Neil of the University of the West Indies Guild of Students.

U.S. Embassy Supports Jamaica’s National Tree Planting Program through #300Trees Initiative
Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.
Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.

National Tree Planting Initiative Targeting The Creation Of Sustainable Partnerships
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, highlights a point while addressing the opening of a two-day virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, on Thursday (April 22). The Summit was convened by President of the United States, Joseph Biden.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, highlights a point while addressing the opening of a two-day virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, on Thursday (April 22). The Summit was convened by President of the United States, Joseph Biden.

Jamaica Sets Ambitious Target Of 60 Per Cent Reduction In Green House Emissions By 2030

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More Protection For Cockpit Country

The US$49-million ‘Conserving Biodiversity and Reducing Land Degradation Using an Integrated Approach’ project to be undertaken within the Cockpit Country is to commence this year. The objective of the project is to address the negative impacts of unsustainable development practices by establishing and operationalising a comprehensive landscape approach in the Cockpit Country that harmonises socio-economic development, sustainable management of natural...
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Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., speaks at a JIS ‘Think Tank’.
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Minister Calls On Jamaicans To Protect Planet Earth

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is encouraging all Jamaicans to commemorate Earth Day 2021 with environmentally conscious practices. Earth Day is being observed today (April 22), under the theme ‘Restore our Earth’. The theme supports the utilisation of natural processes, green technology and innovative thinking to restore ecosystems as opposed to solely...
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PHOTO: Commemorating Earth Day 2021

Chargé d'affaires, John McIntyre and Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., along with their families plant two trees at the U.S. Embassy in commemoration of Earth Day, April 22, 2021.
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Sandals Foundation to Plant 10,000 Trees By June 2022 to Strengthen Caribbean Environmental Conservation Efforts

As organizations around the world mobilize their networks to commemorate Earth Day on April 22, Sandals Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International – is intensifying its Caribbean conservation efforts by committing to plant 10,000 trees by June 2022. The effort forms part of a wider Caribbean Tree Planting Project coordinated by the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance in collaboration...
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Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Climate Innovation Center, Carlinton Burrell.
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Enterprising Entrepreneurs Encouraged To Participate In Climate Launchpad Programme

The Caribbean Climate Innovation Center (CCIC) is encouraging prospective entrepreneurs with clean technology (cleantech) ideas to participate in the upcoming ClimateLaunchpad initiative. The engagement is deemed potentially capable of transforming promising ideas that address climate change into impactful businesses. ClimateLaunchpad is one of the world’s largest green business ideas competition and is designed to assist prospective entrepreneurs with innovative cleantech solutions Clean...
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Manager for the Applications Secretariat Branch, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Miguel Nelson​.
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NEPA Reminding Persons To Renew Sludge And Wastewater Licence

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reminding persons to renew their sludge and wastewater licence. Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Manager for the Applications Secretariat Branch at NEPA, Miguel Nelson, told JIS News that the wastewater and sludge Regulations of 2013 stipulates that a person who intends to operate a treatment plant for the discharge of...
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