THE GOVERNMENTS and people of the Caribbean are reminded to keep environmental considerations as key to sustainable economies and overall development front of mind, even as they negotiate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It will be a global challenge,” said Jan Betlem, regional coordinator for the ‘Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island States’ (IWEco) project, which is funded by the Global Environment Facility.
IWEco, a five-year, Caribbean-wide project that builds on the work of previous initiatives to address water, land and biodiversity resource management as well as climate change, is itself weathering ‘the storm’ of COVID-19.
“IWEco is a project, which ultimately aims to enhance the sustainable flow of ecosystem services and their contribution to sustainable socio-economic development in the Caribbean through the application of appropriate solutions for the improved integrated management of water, land and biological resources.
Even if there are some delays, unavoidable due to the current global crisis, our focus remains on enhancing the sustainable flow of ecosystem services and their contribution to sustainable socio-economic development in the Caribbean,” Betlem noted.
