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Gender, Agrifood Value Chains and Climate-resilient Agriculture - SIDS
This document seeks to enrich the knowledge and evidence base on gender, food systems and resilience in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea region.
This report brings together all activities undertaken towards the completion of the comprehensive regional assessment of Solid Waste Management (SWM) in the Caribbean in fulfilment of five specific objectives.
Rising up for SIDS
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are generally small in population and land area, with fragile ecologies, and face diverse and distinct development trajectories. Many SIDS face common structural and fiscal development challenges including lack of economic diversification, inadequate social protections and inclusion, heavy debt and overdependency on imported fossil fuels. Further, their small size and geographies make SIDS extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

UNDP’s integrated SIDS offer Rising Up for SIDS articulates a clear strategy to respond to their most pressing needs as well as bring forth innovative solutions to the complex developmental challenges they face for a better future for people and planet. It acts as a vehicle for recovery committing to enhancing current support in areas of climate action, blue economy and digital transformation, with innovative development finance as an enabling cross-cutting area

 

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The "Overview and Hotspots Analysis of the Tourism Value Chain in Saint Lucia" assesses the environmental hotspots (areas of significant negative environmental impact) associated with the tourism sector in Saint Lucia.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The report "Recommendations to the Saint Lucian Hospitality Sector for Alternatives to Single Use Plastic" sets out the most commonly used plastics in the Saint Lucian hospitality sector, provides a framework for businesses to either reduce their use, replace with an environmentally-friendly alternative, or recycle them.