Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre : Environmental and Social Management System

Abstract

This policy objectives have presented the commitment of the CCCCC to protect, preserve and promote human and environmental wellbeing in all its operations. In carrying out its mandate and the accompanying Performance Standards (PS) it sets out to strengthen the CCCCC work by: 1. Providing the framework for a sound, systematic, and transparent management system founded on the principles of sustainable development for improving performance and outcomes, managing risks and impacts, and enhancing equitable access to benefits all CCCCC-funded activities; 2. Incorporate a systematic approach to integrating environmental and social performance and risk management into the operations of the CCCCC and projects financed by the CCCCC; 3. Avoiding and/or mitigating adverse impacts to people and the environment and; 4. Ensuring that the design, development, approval, implementation, and review of CCCCC funded activities are grounded in the principles of environmental and social sustainability; and 5. Enhancing Implementing Partners environmental and social capacity to assess and manage the environmental and social risks.