A re­gion­al pol­i­cy frame­work on the en­vi­ron­ment, which CARI­COM Min­is­ters re­spon­si­ble for the en­vi­ron­ment have ap­proved was launched on Tues­day in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty En­vi­ron­men­tal and Nat­ur­al Re­sources Pol­i­cy Frame­work was launched at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 118th Spe­cial Meet­ing of the Coun­cil for Trade and Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment (COT­ED) that will fo­cus on Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment.

In recog­ni­tion of the im­por­tance of nat­ur­al re­sources to the re­gion’s de­vel­op­ment, the Pol­i­cy Frame­work es­tab­lish­es the blue­print for co­op­er­a­tion with­in CARI­COM, pro­vid­ing guide­lines for plan­ning the pro­tec­tion, con­ser­va­tion and sus­tain­able use of the en­vi­ron­ment and nat­ur­al re­sources with­in the Com­mu­ni­ty and its Mem­ber States.