This document is an output from the EU-GCCA Caribbean Support Project, which is funded by the European Union (EU) under a Grant Contract FED/2011/267-392 for the implementation of an action entitled: Support to the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) under the 10th EDF Intra-African Caribbean and Pacific financial framework in the Caribbean (EU-GCCA Project).

This revised Grenada 2018 National Forest Policy has been informed by a number of in-country consultations, supplemented by online surveys, a desk review of national, regional and international needs and gaps, as well as a rapid assessment of the implementation of the 1999 policy which this document replaces. These information sources have pointed to climate…

This strategy operationalises the Grenada National Forest Policy. The overarching goal of the policy and thus this strategy is: “To optimise the contribution of forests to Grenada’s environmentally-sound social and economic development and ensure the resilience and sustainability of the resource”.

The Drought Plan which provides a coordinated and consistent program and a framework for integrating public and private; sector actions to reduce the impact of human suffering from droughts is based on participatory approaches in decision making. It recognises the important role of women in disaster management. When implemented, it is expected to achieve the…

Support for the development of the National Agricultural Plan was provided by the CARICOM Secretariat under Component 1 of the 10th EDF Agricultural Policy Programme (APP). This component focuses on strengthening the regional agricultural development strategy through inter alia providing support for the development and implementation of national and regional agricultural sector development policies, including…

The National Cooling Action Plan (NCAP) for Grenada has been developed to assist the country in meeting its new obligations under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Grenada, being one of the early ratifiers to the Kigali Amendment for the phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is committed…

Climate change and its impacts have become one of the most pressing environmental issues both on a global level and in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Grenada. The coastal environment, particularly in the SIDS context, is highly vulnerable to such impacts. The effects of storm surges and sea level rise heavily impact our beaches and…

Grenada’s second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) pursuant to Article 4 of the Paris Agreement represents its continued commitment to the objectives of the Paris Agreement towards holding the increase of the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This…