The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) recently hosted a Stakeholder Consultation on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project – National Reporting to the UNCCD on the importance of national reporting. It was said national reporting is key to developing mechanisms to combat the crisis posed by the increasing rate of extinction of the world’s plant and animal species.
Given growing global concerns of food security and loss of plant and animal species, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its goal of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) are of vital importance. In August 2000, Trinidad and Tobago ratified this convention and agreed to implement LDN, which is linked to Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world”.
This project aligns with the six priority areas of T&T’s National Environmental Policy 2018, which provides the framework to proactively address realized and forecasted global environmental threats.
