text: Seven years after the CCI Summit, we celebrate the strong efforts and commitment of the now 11 governments that voluntarily took on the 20-by-20 Goal – The Bahamas, The British Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the US Virgin Islands. Five of these countries have achieved or surpassed the 20% declaration target. The Dominican Republic with approximately 75 percent of its near shore marine area under protection, followed by Saint Christopher and Nevis with 50 percent, the U.S. Virgin Islands with 44 percent, Puerto Rico with 27 percent, and Haiti with 23 percent. Collectively, CCI countries have now under protection or management 47,232 square kilometers of their nearshore environment, 61% of the way towards the 20-by-20 goal.
  In terms of sustainable financing, the CCI-CBF process has resulted to date in the establishment of 10 national conservation trust funds and the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund, as the regional partner. Together, these funds form the Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture, the realization of a bold vision to create and mobilize reliable and long-term funding not only for the Caribbean's marine and coastal environment and protected area systems, but biodiversity conservation and sustainable use at large.
  Currently, the CBF manages a total of US$125 million, including the now US$75million in its Conservation Finance Program endowment which aims to supports 12 countries across the region, To date, 7 national conservation trust funds have signed Partnership Agreements with the CBF and have received over $1.7 million from the CBF’s Conservation Finance Program for conservation activities across the region. In addition, the program has also provided close to US$1.0 million to support the establishment and operations of 6 national funds. With 3 more Partnership Agreements expected to be signed between the CBF and partners funds in Bahamas, Haiti, and Guyana, the CBF forecasts that it will be disbursing about US$2.5 million on a yearly basis in the next 2 to 3 years through these 10 agreements.
  In a addition the CBF’s US$50 million sinking fund for Ecosystem-based Adaptation which anchors the CBF’s Climate Change Program, has also disbursed approximately US$1.7 million to date.
  Clearly, the Caribbean has achieved tremendous progress and has clearly demonstrated its ambition and has set a strong basis and stage for the new biodiversity international targets to be agreed upon in 2021.
  
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