Grenada’s biodiversity faces rising challenges resembling habitat destruction, local weather change, over-harvesting, ocean acidification and air pollution.
Launched in 2019, the Grenada Nationwide Ecosystem Evaluation (NEA) got down to present an in depth evaluation and demanding analysis of the impacts of those international and endemic forces on the island’s ecosystems.
Carried out by the Caribbean Pure Sources Institute (CANARI) on behalf of the Authorities of Grenada, this mission additionally supplied instruments, knowledge and information to combine the worth of biodiversity and ecosystem providers into coverage to construct the island’s resilience to profound adjustments in international, regional and native environments.
A key supply of policy-relevant info, NEAs collect and consolidate present information on the standing, traits and threats to biodiversity and ecosystem providers in goal international locations. NEAs additionally showcase and emphasise the financial, social and intrinsic worth of ecosystems and ecosystem providers. Additional, they encourage a extra thorough and constant mainstreaming of ecosystem providers, sustainable growth and resilience into the nation’s overarching decision-making processes.
After a scoping train to border the evaluation and establish coverage inquiries to be addressed was accomplished for the Grenada NEA in 2020, a multidisciplinary staff of authors utilised literature and knowledge, in addition to native and indigenous information, to provide the NEA.
“The staff of 72 authors, comprised of economists, anthropologists, local weather change specialists, biologists and different pure useful resource administration specialists accomplished the doc in 2023. Closing suggestions included methods to combine biodiversity conservation into each facet of financial, social and environmental coverage in direction of wholesome ecosystems that may present an array of worthwhile providers that contribute meaningfully to Grenada’s financial system and its residents’ well-being” stated a launch from CANARI.
PRESENTATION OF REPORT
The Grenada Nationwide Ecosystem Evaluation Report was formally introduced to the general public at a launch ceremony on the Radisson Resort in Grenada on October 26. Senior Technical Officer at CANARI and supervisor of the Grenada Ecosystem Evaluation: Linking Science and Coverage mission, Dr Natalie Boodram, positioned the highlight on each the financial and non-economic worth of ecosystems in her remarks on the launch, emphasising that the NEA Report together with the accompanying Abstract for Policymakers would function vital decision-making instruments for nationwide growth.
Boodram concluded her remarks noting {that a} citizen’s information to the NEA was additionally in growth to succinctly current the information and knowledge discovered within the bigger report that can be utilized by civil society to successfully talk about points affecting Grenada’s ecosystems.
The Grenada NEA Report 2023 was produced by CANARI on behalf of the Authorities of Grenada as a part of the initiative on constructing capability for nationwide ecosystem assessments: linking science and coverage and the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Providers Community.
Improvement of the Grenada NEA was funded by means of the Federal Ministry for the Atmosphere, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Security and Shopper Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, Worldwide Local weather Initiative with international mission oversight by the United Nations Atmosphere Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
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