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| The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a grouping of twenty countries - fifteen Member States and five Associate Members. Stretching from The Bahamas in the north to Suriname and Guyana in south, CARICOM is home to approximately sixteen million citizens.
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| CARICOM came into being on 4 July 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas by Prime Ministers Errol Barrow for Barbados, Forbes Burnham for Guyana, Michael Manley for Jamaica and Eric Williams for Trinidad and Tobago. The Treaty was later revised in 2002 to allow for the eventual establishment of a single market and a single economy. Article 23 of the Revised Treaty provides for the Secretariat to be the principal administrative organ of the Community with its Headquarters located in Georgetown, Guyana.
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| In 2008, the CARICOM Secretariat commenced the Energy Programme as one of the areas of work within the Directorate of Trade and Economic Integration. The Energy Programme was mandated to coordinate the finalization of the regional energy policy and given responsibility for the strategic management of a programmatic approach to the Region’s energy issues.
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| In 2009, the CARICOM Secretariat, through the Energy Unit, commissioned the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS). The C-SERMS was designed to build on the existing efforts within the Region, as well as, to provide Member States with joint regional sustainable energy targets and a common, coherent strategy for implementing the regional energy policy.
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| Approved in 2013, the CARICOM Energy Policy promotes a shift to sustainable energy, through the increased use of renewable energy sources and improvements in energy efficiency. In implementing the regional energy policy, there is a requirement for country level harmonization of policies and actions in a number of key areas of commonality.
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| The C-SERMS, also approved in 2013, provides the basis for a more targeted approach to advancing sustainable energy development under the regional policy, and in so doing, acts as a framework for articulating, monitoring and adjusting regional level strategies, and for securing commitments from Member States towards achievement of the targets that are established.
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| The expectation is that attainment of the C-SERMS targets and objectives will be derived through concrete actions that open regional markets and planning processes to renewable energy options and energy efficiency opportunities, through a transparent and data driven approach that, inter alia: (i) promotes public-private partnerships for financing of such options and opportunities; and (ii) builds the requisite human and institutional capacities to exploit them effectively.
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| To support the dedicated implementation focus that is required for the regional energy transition, the CARICOM Secretariat has been “driving” the establishment of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE). The Centre is intended to function as the implementation hub for the CARICOM Energy Policy, as well as the regional roadmap and strategy.
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| CARICOM Energy has now been established as the collective set of priority initiatives, policies, programmes and actions (PIPPAs) that underpin the integrated work on the regional strategy for the sustainable energy transition. CARICOM Energy is managed by the CARICOM Secretariat, with planning supported by the C-SERMS Platform and implementation coordinated by the CCREEE.
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