7 News Belize

SICA Comes Up With Regional Position On Climate Change
posted (November 7, 2014)
Today the Ministry of Forestry and Fisheries chaired a regional SICA meeting of C-CAD, the Central American Commission on the Environment. According to the CEO - much of the discussion focused on climate change and coming up with a regional position:..

Adele Catzim-Sanchez, CEO - Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, Sust. Dev.
"Meeting to discuss several critical issues. Well you know the important topic on the table right now is climate change. We are working on a collective SICA country position that will be advanced at the next conference of parties for climate change that will take place in December in Lima, Peru. It's the first time that there's been an attempt to have a coordinated and consensus document that would be advanced by SICA countries as a SICA position."

The ministers also discussed institutional strengthening for C-CAD and a draft strategic plan for the environment for Central American Countries.

And while Belize is leading SICA, we're also the base of the Caricom Climate Change Centre in Belmopan. And heading into the world climate change talks in Peru next month - there is a report that the CARICOM countries are prepared to walk out of if rich countries are not prepared to agree on a deal that will reduce the impacts of climate change on the region.

Today we asked Catzim-Sanchez where Belize would stand on that:..

Jules Vasquez
"Belize travels both worlds. How do you view an action like that? How hard a line is SICA willing to take?"

Adele Catzim-Sanchez, CEO - Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, Sust. Dev.
"We have not discuss that in this meeting, so I wouldn't be able to give you an inform comment on that issue and we are not aware of the hardline that the Caricom countries are willing to take. What I do know is that Belize is seen as one of the leaders in terms of advancing the climate change agenda at the COP and one of the challenges we have is deciding on whose behalf we are going to speak, so Belize is sort of the coveted nation that is being as to speak both on behalf of AOSIS and SICA."

AOSIS - is the alliance of small island states.

Home | Archives | Downloads/Podcasts | Advertise | Contact Us

7 News Belize