Crown Prince Haakon of Norway is about to go to Jamaica from November 18-20 to advertise local weather resilience as a worldwide Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Since taking up this function in 2003, he has been dedicated to advancing the UN’s Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), with a selected give attention to eradicating poverty (Aim 1) and conserving marine life (Aim 14). His go to goals to strengthen efforts in these areas and foster collaboration on local weather initiatives.
Jamaica’s marine and coastal communities are more and more susceptible on account of local weather change and different components, jeopardizing each ecosystem resilience and the nature-based livelihoods that rely on tourism and fisheries. Throughout his go to, Crown Prince Haakon will achieve firsthand insights into how Jamaica, with help from Norway and the UNDP, is enhancing its ocean economic system and constructing resilience in these at-risk communities.
He’ll meet with native authorities, youth, and group representatives to debate challenges and options associated to oceans, local weather change, and poverty. His discussions will embrace efforts to fight unlawful fishing by way of the UNDP’s Blue Resilience Program, which goals to enhance marine useful resource administration and defend in opposition to transnational crime within the fisheries sector.
Crown Prince Haakon will go to the coastal group of Rocky Level to see how the Norwegian-supported Blue Resilience Program helps safe the way forward for fishing communities. He may also go to Mount Ethereal, the place water assortment techniques have been rehabilitated as a part of UNDP’s efforts to reinforce local weather adaptation and human safety.
Moreover, he’ll interact in a dialogue with youth leaders at The College of the West Indies, specializing in how younger folks can contribute to nature-based options, local weather motion, and combating poverty of their communities.
