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Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is encouraging citizens to participate in the National Tree Planting Initiative to help the country mitigate climate change and increase its green spaces.

Plant A Tree To Fight Climate Change

The Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change is encouraging citizens to participate in the National Tree Planting Initiative being executed by the Forestry Department. “The Government is encouraging every Jamaican man, woman, child – everyone – to...

Forest Technician with the Forestry Department, Stephen Williams (left), oversees a tree-planting activity with student volunteers from the University of the West Indies (UWI) Rotaract Club. The volunteers (from second left) are Roshan Gordon, Valeska Morrison and Kimona Kenlock. The exercise was undertaken along a section of Highway 2000, in the vicinity of the Linstead Toll Plaza in St. Catherine. (File Photo)

National Tree-Planting Initiative On Track

An aerial view of a section of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country.

Forest Protection High on Agenda at 32nd Meeting of LACFC

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says the European funded Budget Support Programme for the forest sector is on track to be "a phenomenal success" in Jamaica as it comes to an end next year. Under the Programme entitled ‘Addressing Environmental and Climate Change Challenges through Improved Forest Management for Jamaica’, the Forestry Department has met all previous annual targets outlined. Photo: Adrian Walker

€14M Forestry Programme On Target For Completion

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., addresses the 32nd meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC). Jamaica is hosting the forum, which is being held virtually from September 6-10 .

Jamaica Elected Unopposed To Chair Regional Forestry Commission

A Public Education Officer at the Forestry Department plants a Caribbean Pine sapling in the British Forest Estate in Clarendon.

5 years ago AgricultureEnvironment

Jamaica To Host 32nd LACFC Meeting From September 6 To 10

Jamaica will host the 32nd Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC) meeting from September 6 to 10. The biennial event, which is to be held virtually, will bring together experts and regional decision makers for discussions on, among other things, the coronavirus’ (COVID-19) impact on forestry and communities, and post-pandemic recovery efforts. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, and Minister of Housing,...

Principal Director of the Climate Change Division in the Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, UnaMay Gordon.

5 years ago Environment

Jamaica Working Towards Structure For REDD+ By February 2022

The Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change is working towards ensuring that Jamaica can begin to benefit from incentives under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme by early next year. “We are hopeful that by February 2022, we will have a structure for REDD+ in Jamaica,” Principal Director of the Climate Change Division...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is flanked by Principal Director in the Ministry

5 years ago Environment

Jamaica Advanced In Preparations For COP26

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says that Jamaica is well advanced in its preparations for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The Minister noted that he recently participated in a high-level ministerial meeting in London “which helped to prepare us to ventilate important discussions, which will ensure...

5 years ago Environment

Entities Now Have Until September 30 To Comply With Third Phase Of Plastic Ban

Entities now have until September 30, 2021, to comply with the third phase of the ban on single use plastics following a further three-month extension granted by the Government. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. made the disclosure during a recent interview with JIS News. “Following discussions with the private sector stakeholders and...

5 years ago Environment

Citizens Encouraged To Support Plastic Ban-Compliant Businesses

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. is encouraging citizens to support businesses that have retrofitted their operations to be compliant with the government ban on single-use plastics. “I am encouraging citizens to be conscientious in their purchase of goods and services; seek out businesses that are environmentally friendly and using material derived from...

Customer Relations Officer at North Eastern Parks and Markets (NEPM) Waste Management Limited, Donasha Biggs (right), helping workmen to load 35 bags of plastic bottles onto a Recycling Partners of Jamaica truck in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on Friday (July 23).

5 years ago EnvironmentLocal Government

More St. Ann Communities Join Plastic Bottle Separation Drive

Customer Relations Officer at North Eastern Parks and Markets (NEPM) Waste Management Limited (NEPM), Donasha Biggs, is reporting that more St. Ann communities have joined the plastic bottle separation drive. She told JIS News that since the initiative’s launch in the parish in February 2020, several other communities have come on board to participate and raise awareness. “This initiative started… in...