THE REGIONAL agreement on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters, otherwise known as Principle 10, will open for signatures and ratification by countries, including Jamaica, at the UN General...
GOVERNMENT HAS made some initial moves to make official the designated boundary for the ecologically sensitive Cockpit Country that was announced last year."The Forestry Department has placed advertisements to reach out to the private land owners,...
KEY FEMALE figures from industry and academia have given the Government's move to ensure the participation of women and girls in climate change planning and action the nod, while emphacising that taking stock of gender realities is integral to...
JAMAICA IS doing its bit to realise gender equality and the empowerment of women in climate change policy planning and action, beginning with the commissioning of a review and gender analysis of its existing climate change policy framework."We are...
ONE SCIENTIST is emphasising the need for research to bolster Jamaica's preparedness for earthquakes, two weeks after a tsunami warning put the issue back under the public microscope."More research is needed," said Dr Lyndon Brown, former head of...
