May 17, 2019
ESSA is part of a consortium led by CowaterSogema selected as a provider of climate change expertise to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under their Communities of Practice (CoP) framework. Together with other partners Climatekos, Trinomics and Viresco Solutions, the consortium will provide expertise in five core thematic areas: […]
February 7, 2019
Sargassum blooms commonly occur and wash up on southern Caribbean beaches, but 2018 was different. The scale of the 2018 event was unprecedented: hundreds of beaches from French Guyana and the Atlantic coast of Trinidad in the south to Mexico and Florida in the north experienced the worst strandings of Sargassum in history.
October 29, 2018
The Government of Jamaica, through its National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), has embarked on the production of the 7th National State of Environment (SOE) Report. The SOE report will provide Jamaicans a report card on the nation’s environmental performance between 2014 and 2017 and […]
September 18, 2018
As part of Canada’s Ocean Protection Plan and through their Cumulative Effects of Marine Shipping Initiative, Transport Canada is working collaboratively with Indigenous Peoples, local stakeholders and coastal communities to better understand the effects of shipping on coastal environments. One of the outcomes of this […]