Press Release of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE): New York serves as backdrop to the first meeting of the Joint Committee formed under the Memorandum of Understanding between MASE and CARICOM Countries signed at the COP27
Rome, 4 July – On 28 June 2023, the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York hosted the first meeting of the Joint Committee in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between MASE and 9 CARICOM Countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname) that are its signatories to date.
Highlighting the strategic importance Italy attaches to environmental cooperation in favor of the island states of the Caribbean strongly impacted by the negative effects of climate change, the meeting was opened by Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Maurizio Massari, and by the Special Envoy for the Caribbean Countries, Gianni Piccato.
The event was an opportunity to provide a basis within the new Protocol for already existing projects of cooperation, to approve the operational framework documents of the Agreement and to present the signatory Countries’ priorities for their work in ecological transition, sustainable development, the fight against climate change and its negative impact on their fragile and treasured ecosystems.
