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Date Time Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener Bridgetown Barbados, February 2, 2021 – The Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today signed the Barbados Declaration, in which they called for the integration of environmental issues to be placed at the heart of the region’s COVID-19 recovery strategies, with economic reactivation based on social inclusion, low carbon and resilient economies, and the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. The ministers, at the XXII Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environm...

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness (right) at the UN SIDS Summit in 2019. “SIDS are a special case for sustainable development. They require concerted long-term attention and investment of the entire international community.” UN SG at 74th UNGA 2019 Guyana and Suriname, member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), are among the few countries globally which still have significant natural forest, having 60 per cent and 91 per cent coverage, respectively. In Jamaica, 26 per cent of the island is still covered by primary forest, and there is currently an ongoing controversy abou...