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...

Food For the Poor has committed to planting one million fruit and timber trees over the next three years. This is in support of the Government’s target to plant three million trees over three years under a national tree planting initiative launched by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness in October 2019. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has collected 1,211 pounds of plastic waste, to date, under its Plastic Recycling Eco-Reward Pilot Programme, which got under way on October 1. The eight-week pilot, aimed at promoting the sustainable disposal of plastic waste in the Corporate Area, involves partnership with Lee’s Food Fair Supermarket, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) and Magna...

British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Asif Ahmad, is encouraging developers of housing and other infrastructure in the Caribbean to “build with nature in mind”. “Planners, builders and users of property need to understand more fully the environment that is built and the human beings that have to live and thrive within those communities,” he said. “It begins with...