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UNEP's Cartagena Convention LBS Protocol enters into force at last
MONTEGO BAY
Jamaica, West Indies
7th October 2010
ECCEA/LAS
UNEP's Cartagena Convention LBS Protocol enters into force at last
At the Fourteenth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Eleventh Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region being held in Montego Bay, Jamaica today the Bahamas announced its accession to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean (LBS) of the Cartagena Convention. Accession by the Bahamas to the Protocol as its 9th Party means that the LBS officially enters into force as a legal instrument and that there will be stronger pollution control measures in place in Caribbean waters at a time when the effects of sea temperature rise and climate change are of major concern to coastal communities with regard to the conservation of the region’s marine biodiversity.
Jamaica, West Indies
7th October 2010
ECCEA/LAS
UNEP's Cartagena Convention LBS Protocol enters into force at last
At the Fourteenth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Eleventh Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region being held in Montego Bay, Jamaica today the Bahamas announced its accession to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean (LBS) of the Cartagena Convention. Accession by the Bahamas to the Protocol as its 9th Party means that the LBS officially enters into force as a legal instrument and that there will be stronger pollution control measures in place in Caribbean waters at a time when the effects of sea temperature rise and climate change are of major concern to coastal communities with regard to the conservation of the region’s marine biodiversity.
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