The Global Cruise Activist Network (GCAN) is calling on the UN delegates currently taking part in COP26 to take immediate steps to ensure that cruise ships in service anywhere in the world comply with standards that will achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by the cruise industry by 2050.
Government, through the Ministry for Sustainability and Climate Change Resiliency, is taking part in a Governor’s 0ffice-funded project to undertake a climate change risk assessment specific to the Cayman Islands.
The Caribbean has a lot at stake as world leaders and technical experts meet for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). While the urgency of climate action is dire across the world, the livelihood of the Caribbean region continues to be threatened by global warming.
As the two-week-long United Nations global conference on climate change COP 26 (Conference of the Parties) was getting underway in Scotland on Monday, it was already clear that the outcome would be predicated on two important dates; 2030 and 2050.
The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) is urging residents to get ready as this year’s Annual Bulk Waste Collection kicks-off next week in the West Bay District.
Cayman Turtle Centre released two turtles, ‘Speedy,’ and ‘Sweetie,’ from Governor’s beach in honour of World Animal Day, on the fourth of October.
The highly successful partnership between CUC and the Mangrove Education Project’s Marvellous Mangroves Year 5 curriculum is celebrating over 20 years of working together.
Alongside the uncertainty many Caymanians felt this week with rising COVID-19 numbers in the midst of an active hurricane season, many community members were able to come together in support of our islands’ natural environment.
The Department of Environment is reminding the public that it is illegal to kill, harm or possess a shark or any part of a shark in the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Turtle Conservation and Education Centre (CTCEC) is pleased to announce its first annual Sea Turtle Festival, to be held June 16-20, 2021.