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The Cartagena Convention was the product of the first Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, held in Cartagena, Colombia, between 21 and 24 March 1983. The Convention and its first protocol, the Oil Spills protocol, were concurrently adopted on 24 March 1983 in ...
In addition to the governmental waterway proposal, private proposals have been based on a land bridge across Nicaragua. The Intermodal System for Global Transport (SIT Global), involving Nicaraguan and Canadian and American investors, proposed a combined railway, oil pipeline, and fiberoptic cable; a competing group, the Inter-Ocean Canal of ...
The Forum was formed in 1982 and is part of the United Nations Environment Programme in the Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean, with meetings every two years. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] All thirty-three countries within the region are invited to be a part of the Forum, as are other interested parties including NGOs. [ 5 ]
The United Nations Environment Programme supports the Greater Caribbean through its Regional Seas initiative, [4] but studies have pointed to the shortage of marine protected areas and marine reserves in the region as particularly detrimental to shark conservation, [5] an issue also addressed globally though the Memorandum of Understanding on ...
The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities was also established by UNEP. The relationship between terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems is directly addressed by it, which makes it the only international intergovernmental instrument to do so.
The proposal for a regional trading platform or stock exchange was initially raised in 1989, and then again in the 1990s during ongoing discussions for the Caribbean Single Market and Economy, but it was not realized. [10] In 2006 the idea was again brought up in a regional stock market conference.
The economy in the Caribbean region is highly dependent on its tourism industry; in 2013, this industry constituted 14% of their total GDP. This region is largely appealing for the sun, sand, and sea scene. Despite the fact that tourism is very reliant on the natural environment of the region, it has negative environmental impacts.
For example, the Maldives and nations of the Caribbean and Pacific Islands are already experiencing considerable impacts of climate change. [3] It is critical for them to implement climate change adaptation measures fast. [3] Some small and low population islands do not have the resources to protect their islands and natural resources.