Caribbean SIDS Working Group Report of the 1st Meeting of Task Force - LAC Forum of Environment Ministers

Decision 8 directed the formulation of a Caribbean SIDS Programme II for implementation of the Environmental Dimension of the SIDS Sustainable Development Agenda in the Caribbean and that it should focus specifically on the COVID-19 Recovery Response in areas such as tourism recovery, sustainable consumption and production and food security through the sustainable use of land and marine resources. The XXII Meeting of the LAC Forum directed the establishment of a Working Group (WG) to support and guide the development of the Caribbean SIDS Programme pursuant to Decision 8. The first meeting of the WG was convened by the Caribbean Sub-Regional Office on 1st December 2021. The second meeting took place on September 14th 2022, also convened by the Caribbean SRO of UNEP. It was further agreed to convene a Task Force (TF) of the WG which would go into specific details of planning the SIDS Programme and to report back to the full WG. This is the report of the first meeting of the Task Force.