The Government of the Virgin Islands is inviting written applications and nominations of persons for appointment to the Virgin Islands Climate Change Trust Fund Board. 

Winners of the, ‘A Day with the Governor’ climate change competition have been announced.

Climate change continues to be a primary focus for the Virgin Islands, a sentiment also echoed by other Overseas Territories (OTs) at the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC), according to Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie.

Mr. Chairman, the British Virgin Islands is very pleased to be a part of this timely initiative which reflects successful inter-parliamentary cooperation among parliamentarians in Latin America and the Caribbean in the lead up to COP 26. I am highly confident the Parliamentary Observatory for Climate Change and Just Transition will prove to be an invaluable asset to parliamentarians seeking to guide their parliaments’ efforts to help accelerate the national transition from carbon intensive societies to low carbon economies.

Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, Honourable Vincent Wheatley is away from the Territory attending the 2021 United Nations climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.

His Excellency the Governor, Mr. John Rankin, CMG has launched a video competition for students aged 12 to 17 to consider solutions for climate change in the Territory.  

The Government will introduce Environmental Management and Climate Resilience Act during the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly to provide for the sound and sustainable management of natural resources in the Territory.

The public is notified that the signing ceremony of the Grant Agreement between the Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, H. Lavity Stout Community College (HLSCC).....

A Mangrove nursery will be will be established at the H. Lavity Stout Community College (HLSCC) following the signing of a Grant Agreement.

Minister for Transportation, Works and Utilities, Honourable Kye Rymer is currently representing the Territory at the 4^th Caribbean Infrastructure Forum (CARIF 2020) being held in Jamaica on January 21 and 22.