Anthony Mckenzie and Minister

UN Environmental Programme

Yesterday, myself and Anthony Mckenzie from NEPA, met with Sonja Leighton-Kone ( she is proudly Jamaican) Acting Deputy Executive Director of UNEP and Jacqueline Alvarez, Director and Representative of UNEP in Latin America and the Caribbean.

We discussed how Jamaica can accelerate the reform of its Environmental Legislative and Policy Framework, status of UNEP funded projects in Jamaica and future collaboration.

the meeting also focused on issues of Pollution, Climate change, Protection of Biodiversity and not least of all the way forward with plastics.