Last weekend Plastic Free Cayman, CayOcean, and the MCGI church joined more than 45 local volunteers to clean up Barkers Beach and support Protect Our Future’s latest “Our Future is NOT single-use” campaign.
The National Conservation Council of the Cayman Islands (NCC) met last Wednesday, 24 November to discuss implementing successful planning approval policies that prioritise the national conservation of the Cayman Islands.
At the National Conservation Council’s General Meeting held on 24 November 2021, West Bay member Lisa Hurlston-McKenzie with responsibility for Sustainable Development & Climate Change, gave her thoughts on the outcome of COP26 and the implications for the NCC’s work.
Every day, we see youngsters being continually recognised globally as the most fit to mobilise the discussion about climate change.
To coincide with the opening of Cayman’s borders once again, the first time in 20 months, Plastic Free Cayman hosted a beach clean event at South Sound dock on Saturday 20 November.
The three Cayman Islands are currently undergoing a seabed mapping exercise by international geo-data specialists.
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.