Regional environmental negotiators complete training programme

Nearly 40 regional junior environmental negotiators  who were drawn from 12 CARICOM member states, the Dominican Republic and Cuba completed a five-day training programme designed to strengthen their skills in negotiating Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

The workshop, which ended on Friday in St Kitts and Nevis, was organized by the CARICOM Secretariat with support from the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), through the Caribbean Hub sub-component of the Capacity Building related to MEAs in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, said a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.

The project is funded by the European Union and is co-ordinated by the