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Division will receive an allocation of $14.0 million to continue developing and restoring
the stock of forest resources in Trinidad and will address the following activities:
regeneration of forests in all five conservancies of North-East, North-
Central, South-East, South-Central and South-West Trinidad, utilising an
allocation of $1.8 million
continuation of the development of forestry access roads, utilising an
allocation of $3.0 million
improvement of management practices in the area of Watersheds, Wetlands,
National Parks, Wild Life, utilising an allocation of $1.8 million and
development of Park facilities at Palmiste, Caroni and Caura
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The Environmental Policy and Planning Division of the Ministry of the
Environment and Water Resources will continue to lead the programme of developing
and rolling-out environmental policies with an allocation of $3.0 million in 2014.
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It will steer the implementation of a new initiative, the Environment Programme,
over the period 2014-2019, utilising grant-funding from the European Union (EU)
totaling €8.000 million. This programme will support Government‟s pursuit of a low-
carbon development path through the implementation of the National Environment
Policy, the Forest and Protected Areas Policy and the National Climate Change Policy.
In doing so, the Programme will promote sustainable management of environmental
resources in the extractive, transportation and forestry sectors. It will have the following
as its performance targets:
establishment of 9,180 hectares of protected forest areas for carbon
sequestration and climate resilience
an increase of community environmental awareness of the extractive sector
by 10 per cent
the rehabilitation of 24 per cent of abandoned stated owned mined areas for
carbon sequestration and climate resilience
the reduction of CO
2
emissions in the public transportation sector by 12,000
metric tonnes
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In 2014 an allocation of $4.0 million will be provided to commence the
implementation of this programme. A Project Coordination Unit (PCU) will be
established within the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) to
implement the following projects by this Ministry and the Ministry of Energy and Energy
Affairs (MEEA) respectively:
Climate Change Vulnerability Adaptation and Mitigation
