PARADISE ISLAND, The Bahamas — The Bahamas has launched an aggressive national conservation initiative to address and reverse the devastating effects of warming ocean temperatures and a disease ravaging its coral reefs. The country’s first coral gene bank opened today at Atlantis Paradise Island to house, propagate, and replant healthy coral on damaged reefs. The coral rescue initiative is the result of a powerful collaboration between the government of The Bahamas through the Department of Marine Resources, the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection and the Office of the Prime Minister, as well as Atlantis Paradise Island and the Atlantis Blue Project Foundation, the Perry Institute for Marine Science (PIMS), the University of The Bahamas, and the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI).

NICE, France – Caribbean governments launch the Actioning Blue: Caribbean 30×30 Vision for the Ocean political declaration during a high-level event at the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3).

UNITED NATIONS – United Nations humanitarians groups Friday raised alarm over Haiti’s heightened vulnerability to natural disasters, warning that the country’s limited capacity to respond could be severely tested during the 2025 hurricane season .

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica, home to 21 bat species, including five found nowhere else on earth, is being urged to help preserve the country’s bat population, which plays a vital role in safeguarding biodiversity and ensuring the stability and resilience of ecosystems.

NICE, France - St, Kitts-Nevis Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Climate Action and Constituency Empowerment, Dr. Joyelle Clarke, says there is still much more work to be done even as global leaders gather here for the highly anticipated third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) on Monday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Wednesday called on Caribbean countries to be fully prepared for the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season that gets underway on June 1.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has pledged BDS$1 million (US$500 000) to assist the island’s young people to transform their business ideas into blue and green enterprises to sustain the planet for the long haul.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Efforts to contain and clean up a crude oil spill in Oistins, on the island’s south coast, are progressing steadily, with no evidence so far that the oil has entered the sea, according to government officials.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - Prime Minister Dr. Terrence Drew says the Global Sustainable Islands Summit 2025 (GSIS) serves as a clarion call to rethink, to reimagine, and to re-forge  shared destiny as island nations face  the defining challenges of current generation.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister, Dr. Terrance Drew, Tuesday said that the twin island Federation is soon to embark upon geothermal drilling after his administration had agreed with the opposition on the need for a united approach towards developing the project.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (ECS) has formally launched the Caribbean Efficient and Green Energy Buildings Project (CEGEB project), which it describes as “a transformative regional initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of sustainable energy solutions and energy-efficient practices” across public buildings in the participating countries.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana will host the launch of the Global Biodiversity Alliance in July bringing together world leaders in an attempt to halt the global environmental decline.