Environmental Policy and Planning Division TT

14/11/2024

The Ministry of Planning and Development through the EPPD is partnering with .tt and others on the " Trinidad and Tobago Organic Waste Pilot Project".

🎯 The aim of the project is to enhance the collection and processing of organic waste in Trinidad and Tobago, allowing for an assessment of the economic, environmental, and social impacts of composting.

🤝Are you ready to make a difference?

📋 We want to hear from you! Take a quick survey to share your thoughts on composting!

🔗 Click the LINK IN THE BIO to access the online survey.

Your feedback will help us promote sustainable practices in our communities! 🥕🫑🌴💚

14/11/2024

The Ministry of Planning and Development through the EPPD is partnering with SWMCOL and others on the " Trinidad and Tobago Organic Waste Pilot Project" 🌱 Are you curious about composting but unsure where to start? 🤔 We’d love to know your thoughts! Participate in this quick survey! 📝

Ready to make a difference? We want to hear from you! Take a quick survey to share your thoughts on composting! Your feedback will help us promote sustainable practices in our community! 🥕💚 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LPLGNBG

02/10/2024

🌊More from International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) 2024 !

🇹🇹ICC Trinidad and Tobago is coordinated by the Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development.

The Ministry of Planning and Development , led by its Environmental Policy and Planning Division, and the Environmental Management Authority are members of the National Planning Committee.

🗓️This year, on Saturday 14th September, we were joined by almost 200 volunteers at Chagville Beach in Chaguaramas and together we removed over 960lbs of trash🚮, including plastics, glass and miscellaneous waste.

The trash removed included:
❎2861plastic bottles
❎1047 glass bottles
❎106 cigarette buds
❎a metal drum

😄Thank you to all our committed volunteers!!

🇹🇹Environmental Pride is National Pride

16/09/2024

🗓 Today, September 16 2024, we join the global community in celebrating World Ozone Day 2024.

🌿 This natural shield protects all life on earth from harmful UV rays.

🌎 Thanks to global efforts under the Montreal Protocol, man made gases in the atmosphere discovered in the 1980s that were causing a hole in the ozone layer are being addressed.

🤝If current policies remain in place, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values by 2040. Removing these harmful gases is also helping to address climate change as these gases also cause global warming.

🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago became signatory to the Montreal Protocol in 1989 and remains committed to pursuing all necessary action to protect the ozone layer and and the climate.

20/08/2024

🏖International Costal Cleanup 2024 is a few weeks away‼

🌊Join the and the on Saturday 14th September, 2024, at Chagville Beach as part of the initiative.

⏰ Meet us at 8:30am on Chagville Beach, next to Five Islands

👉Register via link: https://forms.gle/uwBpjGR5Y6j2jKRQ9 👈

Bring your family and friends!💪

Queries❓Email 📨[email protected]

See you there!

22/07/2024

Data security is an important factor to consider when handing over old/ end of life technology for recycling. Factory resets and engaging with accredited recycling companies can ensure that your personal data is safely removed from a device you wish to recycle.

27/06/2024

🌡World Refrigeration Day raises awareness about the importance of refrigeration technologies in everyday life.

🥵🥶This year’s theme ‘Temperature Matters’ explores the broad and vital impacts of the refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pump industry in providing both cooled and heated environments and raises awareness of the importance of temperature control in a variety of applications and situations that affect our daily lives.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy Efficiency through the Development of Low-carbon Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies (RAC) Technologies Prtoject in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to address our international commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which is designed to address global warming by reducing carbon emissions.

On this World Refrigeration Day, let's take a moment to appreciate the refrigeration sector and its contributions to our everyday lives.💙

🌎Let's also do our part to reduce the environmental impact of refrigeration and make a difference in the planet's future.

25/06/2024

The Ministry of Planning and Development recognised World Environment Day on June 5th 🌍 by visiting Bishop’s High School, Tobago, to award the school with a plastic lumber bench made from recycled plastic bottles ♻️ for winning the Forms 4-6 Group Category of the Ministry's Earth Day 2024 Video Competition.

The Honourable Pennelope Beckles, Minister of Planning and Development, was present at the plastic lumber bench handover where she used the plastic shredder and presented the students with prizes at the prize-giving ceremony. 🏆

The plastic lumber bench was donated as a prize by the Flying Tree Environmental Management, an environmental NGO.

17/06/2024

Today, 17th June, 2024, we celebrate International Day of Desertification and Drought. This year’s theme is “United for Land. Our Legacy. Our Future” which spotlights the future of land stewardship — our most precious resource to ensure the stability and prosperity of billions of people around the world. 🌎

Desertification, land degradation, and drought are among the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, with up to 40% of all land area worldwide already considered degraded.

This year’s global observance event of Desertification and Drought Day 2024, will be held today and would be hosted by the Government of Germany, in Bonn. 🇩🇪

The event will also mark the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), one of the three global agreements known as the Rio Conventions.   

This year’s slogan "United for Land: Our Legacy. Our Future”, perfectly fits the focus of this event on ensuring healthy land 🌱for future generations, driving global prosperity and stability.  



Future

05/06/2024

Happy World Environment Day!🌎🌿🌱

🌳World Environment Day 2024 focuses on accelerating land restoration, halting desertification, and building drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are .”

Drought and desertification threaten essential ecosystems across the planet, including freshwater ecosystems and soil, that make all life on Earth possible.🌍

The United Nations Environment Programme has estimated that 12 million hectares of land are lost to degradation every year, impacting food and water supplies across the globe.

🌱Successful land restoration requires an approach that uses knowledge, drive, and ambition across all generations.

Join this to protect our planet and our common future.💚

22/05/2024

🐝🐊🦇 The theme of the 2024 International Day for Biodiversity is ‘Be part of the Plan’. 🦘🐋🌴🌻

📣The theme calls upon the international community to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity worldwide by supporting the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

🌎Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, non-governmental organizations, lawmakers, businesses, and individuals are encouraged to highlight the ways in which they are supporting the implementation of the Biodiversity Plan.

Everyone has a role to play.
Everyone can be .✊

👥The theme ‘Be part of the Plan’ also seeks to increase awareness and commitment in the lead-up to the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) to be held from 21 October to 1 November 2024 in Cali, Colombia.

-MontrealGlobalBiodiversityFramework

08/05/2024

Here are the WINNERS of our Trinidad and Tobago vs Plastics Video Competition! 🏆🎉

INDIVIDUAL - Joshua Fontenelle

GROUP: Forms 1 – 3
St. Joseph's Convent, St. Joseph Environmental Club

GROUP: Forms 4 – 6
Bishop's High School, Tobago
Environmental Club

👏🏼 We extend a big thank you to all participants, teachers, parents, and all those who have supported this initiative!

🎦The video submissions received showcased the immense creativity and imagination of youth in Trinidad and Tobago.

🇹🇹The Ministry of Planning and Development, Environmental Policy and Planning Division encourages ALL Secondary School Students of Trinidad and Tobago to continue to advocate for the environment.

16/04/2024

🌎 Earth Day 2024 Exhibition

➡️ Theme: "Planet vs Plastics"

Join us to commemorate Earth Day on Monday 22nd April 2024, at the University Inn and Conference Centre, UWI, St. Augustine, from 9am to 5pm!🌱💚

The aim of this Earth Day Exhibition is to share information with students and stakeholders on various environmental issues, especially on ways to reduce plastic use and encourage recycling.♻️

See you there!😄

30/03/2024

Today is the International Day of Zero Waste!

Zero Waste Day highlights both the importance of strengthening waste management globally and the need to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns.♻️

In commemoration, the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD) held an Autoclave Handover Ceremony🤝 on Monday 25th March, 2024.

🇹🇹 Trinidad Tobago procured an autoclave unit through a pilot project entitled “Replacement of precarious medical waste incinerators by autoclave units in selected Caribbean countries” under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) #5558 Project entitled “Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Management Mechanism for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Caribbean” (2015-2022).

The autoclave unit reduces the emissions of Unintentional Persistent Organic Pollutants (UPOPs) from incineration. The unit uses a thermal treatment method to disinfect biomedical waste, making it safe for further disposal.🚮

🏥The autoclave unit was installed in the South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) at the San Fernando General Hospital to help support the disposal of biomedical waste, and it has been fully operational since it was commissioned in October 2022.

✅The environmentally sound management of biomedical waste is essential to prevent the spread of diseases, safeguard the health and wellbeing of all those who come into contact with waste, and protect the environment by minimising pollution.

# ZeroWasteDay

18/03/2024

3....2.....1.....🛎 FIGHT

🥊Trinidad and Tobago vs Plastics

The Ministry of Planning and Development, Environmental Policy and Planning Division presents:

🎦VIDEO COMPETITION
Trinidad and Tobago vs Plastics

Open to ALL Secondary School Students of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

‼️Don't miss the fight of the century‼️

🔗Entry Guidelines at the link in caption:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K3l3H_iaqwbJOzliQCvBQCF_HPjFci-T/view?usp=sharing

✳️Submission Deadline: Monday 15th April, 2024 @ 11:59pm AST

11/03/2024

👥The Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean (BCRC Caribbean) hosted the Second Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting for the Global Environment Facility ‘Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in SIDS (GEF ISLANDS) Projects (GEF 10279 AND 10472), in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

🏝GEF ISLANDS aims to support Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to safely and sustainably manage hazardous chemicals and waste.

🇹🇹As a participating county in the GEF ISLANDS Programme, Trinidad and Tobago attended the two-day PSC Meeting alongside project stakeholders from the other 11 participating countries.

🎯The Meeting included:

🔑A recap of all the key project accomplishments within the last year

📑Updates on ongoing projects

💬Discussion on the project expenditure under GEF 10279 and 10472

📃Endorsement of upcoming actives

🏦Kick off of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) implemented child project

ℹChild Project means an individual project under a Program.

08/03/2024

In celebration of International Women's Day 2024 💐, under the theme of 'Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress', the National Ozone Unit within the EPPD, takes the opportunity to recognise our female, professionally certified Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (RAC) Technicians; and by extension all the females at the EPPD that continue to break glass ceilings across all sectors of the environment. 💜🌸

Happy International Women’s Day 💜

08/03/2024

In celebration of International Women's Day 2024 💐, under the theme of 'Inspire Inclusion’, the National Ozone Unit within the EPPD, takes the opportunity to recognise our female, professionally certified Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (RAC) Technicians and by extension the females at the Ministry of Planning and Development 💜🌸

Happy International Women’s Day 💜