The Capacity-Development Workshop for the Caribbean Region on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Mainstreaming of Biodiversity and the Integration of Climate Change was held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 3 – 7 November 2008. This workshop was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention in collaboration with the government of Trinidad and Tobago, the Cropper Foundation, the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM), and the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI).

The Workshop was held in parallel with the Capacity-Development Workshop for the Caribbean Region on communication, education and public awareness and media relations held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 3 – 6 November 2008.

Related documents (official documents, information documents and other documents) are accessible below.

• Notification
• Documents
• Information Note for Participants
• Preparing for the Workshop

• Final report

  Presentations of participants

• Antigua and Barbuda - Draft NBSAP overview
  
• Bahamas - NBSAP implementation
  
• Cuba - NBSAP implementation
  
• Cuba - Development of the Fourth National Report
  
• Cuba - State of CEPA
  
• Dominica - NBSAP implementation
  
• Dominica - Poster on 2010 Target implementation
  
• Guyana - NBSAP implementation
  
• Haiti - NBSAP overview, implementation and climate change
  
• Jamaica - NBSAP implementation
  
• Jamaica - Development of the Fourth National Report
  
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - NBSAP implementation
  
• Saint Lucia - NBSAP implementation
  
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - NBSAP implementation
  
• Suriname - NBSAP development
  
• Trinidad and Tobago - NBSAP implementation
  

• CANARI - User Guide to Effective Tools and Methods for Integrating Environment and Development: findings of a recent CANARI/IIED project
  
• CANARI - Climate change and biodiversity in the Caribbean: the knowns and unknowns
  
• CCCCC - Caribbean Approaches to Capacity Building for Adaptation
  
• CCCCC - Special Adaptation to Climate Change (SPACC) Project - Project Status
  
• CARICOM - Integrating Climate Change into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans: Adaptive Management
  
• CARICOM - Regional and and Sectoral Perspectives on Mainstreaming in the Caribbean Community: Biodiversity, Marine Resources and Climate Change
  
• Cropper Foundation - Follow-up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (The 'Trinidad' Experience)
  
• FAO - Mainstreaming biodiversity concerns into the fisheries sector in the region
  
• OAS Department for Sustainable Development - Payments for Ecological Services
  
• SCBD - Introduction to the Workshop
  
• SCBD - What is the Ecosystem Approach?
  
• SCBD - Managing conditions of uncertainty: biodiversity and climate change
  
• UWI - Caribbean Sea Ecosystem Assessment (CARSEA)
  
• UWI - Nariva Swamp Restoration and Carbon Sequestration Project