PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo and Prime Minister Stephenson King of Saint Lucia will today address the opening ceremony of the Third Joint Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and the Human and Social Development (COHSOD). The meeting to be held at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) will be co-chaired by Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
Ministers of Environment and other environment experts in attendance at the two-day forum, will address environmental and climate change issues and their impact on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) as well as the Community where Prime Minister Stephenson is the lead Head of Government with responsibility for Climate Change and Sustainable Development in the quasi-Cabinet of the Conference of Heads of Government.
The meeting will also address issues related to water management, climate change and renewable energy, sustainable land management within the Caribbean Community, preparations for the Mauritius Strategy, sustainable consumption and production in the Caribbean and the Environment Pillar of the CARICOM Action Plan for Social Development and Crime Prevention, a release from the CARICOM Secretariat noted.