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Belize Leads Regional Body In Meetings
Thu, August 21, 2014
Belize has the presidency of SICA until December and a part of that means holding the presidency of C-CAD, the Central American Commission on the Environment, and Opresca - the Central American commission on fisheries.

But, rather than just place holding the Ministry of Fisheries Forestry and Sustainable Development is setting a bold agenda of reform for the institution. We found out more at the ministerial meeting for the C-Cad Secretariat today:..

Hon. Lisel Alamilla, Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, Sust. Dev.
"Specifically look at reforming CCAD, revisiting the governance structure and the decision making framework because CCAD has had many ups and downs and after participating for two and a half years, it is my opinion that it's the government structure that really needs to revisited and strengthened."

Adele Catzim, CEO - Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, Sust. Dev.
"We see this as a major opportunity for Belize because Belize is advance in its negotiations of climate change on a regional level, but in the Caribbean region not in the Central American region and so since we have the presidency what we are trying to do is to bring the lessons learnt, the positions and the messages from Caricom countries and OAS into the SICA countries."

Emilio Sempris, Vice Minister - Panama
"Regarding commonalities; celery, rice is a commonality in climate change that we address. In Panama we are expanding our canal so we are keeping alive all the maritime dynamics and the coastal zone dynamics."

Adele Catzim, CEO - Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, Sust. Dev.
"So while the individual countries as is the case with SICA have their own individual situations that they have to deal with, what we are here to do is look at points in common; what it is that we are all addressing? What we are all facing that is related to the natural environment that present opportunities for us to work together."

There's a parallel meeting of climate change negotiators for Central America also happening at the Radisson.

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