This act seeks to ensure that decisions pertaining to the environment are made in an integrated manner, in collaboration with appropriate authorities, non-governmental organizations and other persons, provides for preventive and remedial measures for the control and mitigation of all forms of...
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Environmental Protection and Management Act (No. 10 of 2019)
06/06/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education Gender Indigenous peoples Pollutant Release Register Antigua and BarbudaGreen State Development Strategy: Vision 2040
01/05/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Certification Environmental education Energy Gender Mining Indigenous peoples GuyanaThe Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040 is Guyana’s twenty-year, national development policy that reflects the guiding vision and principles of the ‘green agenda’: “An inclusive and prosperous Guyana that provides a good quality of life for all its citizens based on sound education and...
Climate Resilience Act (No. 16 of 2018)
19/12/2018 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Climate Change Gender Indigenous peoples Dominica This Act provides for the establishment of the Climate Resilience Execution Agency of Dominica (CREAD) in order to rebuild Dominica as the first climate resilient nation.
Paris Agreement [Framework Convention on Climate Change]
04/11/2016 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Climate Change Environmental education Gender Indigenous peoplesThe 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21), held in Paris in 2015, concluded with the adoption of the Decision and the Paris Agreement. The agreement entered into force in November 2016 and will apply as of 2020.
Convention on Biological Diversity
29/12/1993 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education Environmental assessment Gender Indigenous peoplesThe Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was adopted at the Earth Summit in 1992 and has been ratified by all 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.