Environmental Mainstreaming/Green Economy projects
JNCC has developed and managed the environmental mainstreaming
process (applied as Green Economy projects in the BVI and Anguilla)
to help the OTs identify their environmental priorities. These
projects are funded by the FCO, Defra and JNCC. To
provide more detail on what the environmental mainstreaming
process is, we have produced a question and answer document
explaining the environmental mainstreaming process and
projects
The Environmental Mainstreaming project is being managed by
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) on behalf of the United
Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The main objective of
the project is: ‘To work with each OT Government to understand
the economic value of its natural environment, the threats posed
and options available for managing these threats, and to enable
environmental issues to be integrated into strategic
decisions.
The reports on the economic valuation work done in the BVI
and Anguilla by the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU
University Amsterdam are available on request from JNCC. Report
titles available here>>
JNCC has carried out the following
Envirionmental Mainstreaming/Green Economy projects:
2014 - February 2015: Turks and Caicos Islands Green economy
project.
The Turks and Caicos Island (TCI) Green Economy Project has been
funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) managed by the
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and delivered by
Dialogue Matters. The Green Economy project is about helping TCI
organisations work together to develop ways of integrating the
environment into strategic decisions to ensure that the people who
live here, alongside business, and nature, thrive over the long
term.
The project aims to help the TCI to:
- Understand the economic value of, and dependences on, their
natural environment
- Understand the threats and risks
- Identify solutions to enable the environment to be
mainstreamed and properly integrated into strategic decisions
For more detail read the Turks and
Caicos Islands Green economy report.
March 2013: Anguilla Mainstreaming project.
This project comprised 2 components:
- A review and scoping study was conducted via a
literature review and interviews during November 2012 (the survey
is in Appendix 1). This established the type and nature of
information available and a provisional assessment of gaps in
knowledge, legal capacity and the capacity of government and wider
society to act on knowledge and implement legislation to protect
and manage the environment.
- • Stakeholder consultations was conducted in
February 2013. These validated some of the information collected in
the review and scoping study and identified gaps and barriers to
the implementation of environmental mainstreaming and short, medium
and long term actions for the implementation of environmental
mainstreaming.
For more detail read the Anguilla Green Economy
project report
Additional information on the event can be found in our
nature news.
May 2012: Environmental Mainstreaming in the Falkland
Islands.
In May 2012 an environmental mainstreaming workshop was held in
the Falkland Islands.
For more detail read the Falkland
Islands Environmental Mainstreaming report
February 2012: Green Economy workshop British Virgin
Islands.
In February 2012 a Green Economy workshop was held in the
British Virgin Islands
For more detail read the BVI
Green Economy Workshop report and the BVI Green
Economy report
Reports are also available on the individual territory web pages.