St Helena : NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN APPROVED
Submitted by Saint Helena Herald (Public Relations Information Office) 09.09.2012 (Article Archived on 23.09.2012)
The Environmental Management Directorate is pleased to announce that St Helena’s National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) was approved by Executive Council on 4 September 2012.
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN APPROVED
The Environmental Management Directorate is pleased to announce that St Helena’s National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) was approved by Executive Council on 4 September 2012.
Approval of the NEMP follows successful consultation with key stakeholder groups - civil society, the private sector, youth, Legislative Council, the Natural Resources, Environment and Development Committee, senior officials within SHG and the general public.
The NEMP provides the framework for environmental management on St Helena for the next 10 years. It includes a series of time bound targets that are outlined in an action plan in the annex to the NEMP.
Councillor Raymond Williams, Chairman of the Natural Resources, Environment and Development Committee says in his foreword to the plan:
“I am extremely pleased that St Helena has developed its first National Environmental Management Plan.
“As the airport project progresses and the Island develops its economy, we will need to ensure that the environment, one of St Helena’s key tourism products, is effectively managed.
“The environment impacts us all, and this plan is not, and cannot be, just a St Helena Government Plan, it is a plan for the whole Island. Having branded our Island as ‘green’, we all need to take environmental management seriously. This is something that we all need to do in partnership and collaboration – between government, businesses, youth, civil society, residents and visitors.”
A copy of the NEMP is now available on the Homepage of the SHG website www.sainthelena.gov.sh
SHG
7 September 2012
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