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Cli­mate Change Con­sul­tant

In a sweep­ing demon­stra­tion of en­vi­ron­men­tal com­mit­ment, the Gov­ern­ment of T&T ap­proved four ma­jor ini­tia­tives last Thurs­day, po­si­tion­ing this oil and gas-pro­duc­ing na­tion as a leader in Caribbean cli­mate ac­tion and ma­rine con­ser­va­tion.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, and De­vel­op­ment Kennedy Swarats­ingh, in a se­ries of rapid-fire an­nounce­ments, stat­ed that the coun­try has now signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) to join the Ocean Co­or­di­na­tion Mech­a­nism, join­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Coral Reef Ini­tia­tive (ICRI), ap­prov­ing the 2030 Na­tion­al Bio­di­ver­si­ty Tar­gets, and ap­proval of a new Na­tion­al Cli­mate Change Pol­i­cy that has to be laid in Par­lia­ment.