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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
The Technical Assistance Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates all technical assistance and training programmes offered by International and Regional Organisations. Financial assistance is processed through the Ministry of Finance.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
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Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
No information is available.
Programmes and Projects
Assistance includes seminars and technical meetings, documentation and technical information, support for human resource development and the strengthening of national institutions. It also includes short-term and long-term consultancies for policy formulation, drafting of legislation and transfer of expertise and technology and improvements in administration and management capabilities. There are also programmes for small business development.
Status
The Bahamas receives financial assistance from the European Union, the World Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Technical assistance is also provided by these organizations, as well as from UNEP, UNCTAD,UNESCO, ILO, IMO, ICAO, WMO, ITU and UPU; the OAS, PAHO and CFTC; and regional organisations such as CARICOM, U.W.I. Centre for Environment and Development (UWICED), the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) and the Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council.
Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
The Central Government is responsible for most policy initiatives.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
The Bahamas has not held a policy discussion on consumption at the national level, but emphasis is placed on the reduction of waste and increasing energy efficiency in the transport sector.
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Status
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-Raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
The Bahamas has not been involved in any bilateral or multilateral initiatives in the area of consumption patterns.
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
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Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
A number of new environmental laws have been introduced recently in The Bahamas:.Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
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Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
While activities are woven into the budgets of many Departments and Ministries, it is impossible to give a specific amount of domestic resources made available for sustainable development. There is no separate budget for this.
Status
Since 1992, the Government of The Bahamas has received new additional grant funding for sustainable development as follows:
Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth and sixt sessions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 4 June 1998.
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TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGY
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BIOTECHNOLOGY
Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
Responsible for biotechnology issues are the agencies involved in decision-making in the Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology (BEST) Commission, especially the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
The Bahamas proposes to draft legislation to ensure equitable returns for the exploitation of Bahamian biodiversity by foreign entities, to protect intellectual property rights, and to provide safeguards against the uncontrolled release of living modified organisms.
Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
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Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Status
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
The Bahamas is presently exploring the application of biotechnology to the protection and sustainable use of its reserve of biological resources. This includes the application of tissue culture to the possible exploitation of plants and marine organisms for pharmaceutical purposes.
Financing
No information is available.
Cooperation
No information is available.
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS), a service of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), which monitors global developments in
regulatory issues in biotechnology.
Click here to go to the Web Site of UNEP's
International Register on Biosafety.
Click here for the International Centre
for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Biosafety WebPages
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
The Bahamas Council of Light Industries, the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, the Bahamas Institute of Professional Engineers and the Grand Bahamas Port Authority are all advisory and ad-hoc members of the National Sustainable Development Coordination Mechanism. Oil companies, labour unions and others are not members of this coordination mechanism.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
No information is available.
Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
There are governmental policies to reduce the impact of development through encouraging increased efficiency of resource use, including reuse, recycling, and reduction of waste per unit of economic output.
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
Major group organizations participate in environmental impact assessment projects at the national and local levels. The Government sent representatives from major groups to the SIDS Global Meeting in Barbados, in November 1994.
Most big enterprises and a few small and medium sized enterprises have adopted sustainable development policies.
Programmes and Projects
No information is available.
Status
The principal threats to human health or the sustainable use of natural resources associated with industrial activity are: Contamination of freshwater by agricultural chemicals, herbicides and pesticides. Industrial pollution is largely thermal pollution, discharge of oils, greases and small quantities of organic contaminants.
Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
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Financing
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Cooperation
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth and sixth sessions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 4 June 1998.
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Bodies
The Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology (BEST) Commission's Committee on Environmental Safety is vested with the responsibility of investigating the entire issue of emissions and making recommendations for national policy and legislation.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
No information is available.
Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies and Plans
High priority in the transport sector is given to the use of safe technologies. Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, the Government has tried to expand and improve the performance and safety of the mass transportation system.
Decision-Making: Major Groups Involvement
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Programmes and Projects
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Status
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Challenges
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Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
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Research and Technologies
In the area of environment and transport, only some ad hoc observations of emissions have been carried out.
Financing
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Cooperation
No information is available.
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This information was provided by the Government of The Bahamas to the fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last update: 1 April 1997.
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