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Supporting International Conventions on Environment

Belize played host to a Caribbean regional seminar on the 'Implementation of International Instruments and Policy Development'. Twenty legal and environment officers attended the environmental law meeting aimed at assisting small states to develop legislation in support of international conventions, which include the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change Convention and the Convention on Desertification.

Officials from The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago attended. Representatives from Fiji Islands and Samoa also took part to share their Pacific experience in environmental law and management. A similar seminar was held in Mauritius last year for the Africa region, and further seminars are planned for the Pacific and Asia regions in September and October 2006.

(From CNIS, 7 June 2006)