The CARICOM Environment in Figures has been prepared as one of the main outputs of the United Nations Project, "Strengthening Capacity in the Compilation of Statistics and Indicators for Conference Follow-up in the CARICOM Region," jointly carried out by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. The Project has been executed in the CARICOM Member States, which are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St.Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago.

It provides an overview of the state of the environment in the CARICOM region through a presentation of the major issues, with supporting data in tables and charts and accompanying comments on the data. In addition, it is intended to describe the status of environment statistics in the region, including the indication of major data gaps. It should be noted, however, that data gaps are experienced in most regions of the world and may result from, inter alia, the lack of environmental data, scattered or one-effort data on the environment, inaccessibility of environmental data for national statistical offices and the lack of institutionalized environment statistics in countries.

It is expected that, as this area of statistics becomes more established, concepts, definitions, classifications and methods of data collection should become increasingly more harmonised and standardised.

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