CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC -The St. Lucia-based Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee says it can launch a Regional Environmental Monitoring Knowledge Portal (REMDAP) on Tuesday.
The OECS Fee stated, “REMDAP will contribute to the preservation of Caribbean ecosystems and pure sources by way of the development of information availability, enabling knowledgeable selections, and strengthening the regional environmental monitoring and evaluation course of.”
It stated this initiative is in partnership with the United Nations Surroundings Programme’s Caribbean Surroundings Programme (UNEP-CEP) and the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) by way of the GEF-funded Integrating Water, Land, and Ecosystem Administration in Caribbean Small Island Growing States (GEF IWEco) Mission.
In 2021, a feasibility research for establishing a REMDAP was accomplished below the IWEco venture. The OECS Fee stated that the research acknowledged the significance of prioritizing the era of environmental information for simpler science-based decision-making and the necessity for a shared web-based geospatial portal for ecological information.
It stated that below Element 3.1 of the venture, carried out by CARPHA and the OECS Fee, REMDAP was decided to be a precedence initiative for the Caribbean area based mostly on nationwide stakeholder consultations.
The portal has been developed and carried out in eight taking part nations, together with 5 OECS member states: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Later this yr, REMDAP shall be carried out in 4 different OECS member states: Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.
The OECS Fee stated that this shall be supported by the European Union-funded Biodiversity Help Programme in ACP Coastal Environments (BioSPACE) venture.
The general goal of REMDAP is to contribute to the preservation of Caribbean ecosystems and pure sources by way of improved information availability and to function a clearinghouse mechanism to strengthen regional environmental monitoring and evaluation.
It’s also supposed to offer a available supply of dependable information to decision-makers, lecturers, and NGOs, amongst others, and to offer a set of helpful metrics, indicators, and variables for monitoring.
It would additionally embrace multi-scale instruments and indicators to observe progress in direction of attaining targets in multilateral environmental agreements and improve regional capability to handle spatial information and data for ecological indicators.
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