Ministry of Environment
‘International Day of Forests’ – Minister of the Environment tutors school students on conserving the pine, coppice, and mangroves
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas — Just before planting a tree to signify his Ministry’s commitment to environmental stewardship, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources the Hon. Vaughn Miller told students of Jack Hayward Junior High School in Freeport that the baton in the race of environmental protection will soon be passed on to them and that they must become good stewards of The Bahamas’ environment. In a short presentation to the student body on Thursday, March 23, 2023 on the importance of the forests, Minister Miller gave the junior high students an abbreviated version on the history of forests in Grand Bahama and The Bahamas and how its existence benefits them directly and indirectly.“Our forests are important in the field of medicine,” said Minister Miller. “Ev...
Environment Minister Addresses Workshop on ‘Building the Bahamas Capacity in Transparency for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation’
NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Hon. Vaughn Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources addressed the opening of the Integrated Validation and Consultation Workshop for Increasing Greenhouse Gas Transparency and Climate Finance Flows, Monday, March 20, 2023 at Breezes Resort, Cable Beach. The four-day integrated workshop is being hosted for two projects that are simultaneously being implemented on the theme “Building The Bahamas Capacity in Transparency for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.” This Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) project will undertake the following: •Develop the national transparency framework, bringing international best practices, and ensuring the sustainability of the future national Measurement, Reporting and Verifi...
Ministry of Environment team tours RCCL’s ‘Harmony of the Seas’
NASSAU, The Bahamas — The Hon. Vaughn P. Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, and State Minister the Hon. Basil McIntosh along with a team of Ministry representatives embraced Royal Caribbean’s welcome on a recent tour of ‘Harmony of the Seas’ the third largest ship of their fleet. Nick Rose, Royal Caribbean’s Group Associate Vice-President, Environmental Programs, led the tour. He explained the decarbonisation strategy (Destination Net-Zero) as he showed the engine room, recycling facilities, incineration capacities and water cleansing opportunities. The ship has one of the cleanest waste segregation processes with areas for proper disposal of plastic bottles, paper, dry and wet garbage, aerosol cans, cooking oil etc. which are securely stored to stop the...
