Saint Lucia

The overall vision of the National Energy Policy (NEP) is a modern, sustainable energy sector focused on energy security, cost minimisation, and local enfranchisement against the global climate change context. This vision will be achieved by transitioning to a more decarbonised economy characterized by affordable, secure, and sustainable energy services, with high levels of local participation, in order to achieve national prosperity. The NEP is intended to help Saint Lucia meet its nationally determined commitment (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.
The following are the NEP’s seven goals for the energy sector by 2030:
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<li>Ensure a secure, reliable, affordable, transparent, greener and resilient electricity sector;</li>
<li>Decarbonize thermal applications;</li>
<li>Make reduction in energy intensity a key driver of decarbonisation;</li>
<li>Decarbonize the transport sector;</li>
<li>Ensure a safe, reliable and affordable supply of petroleum products and their efficient and environmentally safe storage, handling and use;</li>
<li>Ensure that human, technical and institutional capacities are aligned with the needs of the energy sector and policy objectives, by integrating social and gender aspects into energy sector development; and</li>
<li>Facilitate access to financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency.</li>
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This Strategy has the goal of enhancing the availability and use of climate change-relevant information in national decision-making. This will be achieved by informing the design and execution of climate change-related scientific research initiatives in Saint Lucia about the critical data and knowledge gaps the country needs to address in order to execute its climate change agenda. The two strategic objectives are to (1) generate climate, environmental, and socioeconomic data and science-based information, critical to climate action across sectors, including adaptation, mitigation, and addressing loss and damage; and (2) enhance research and systematic observation (RSO) capacity in themes that are critical to climate action across sectors, including adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage.
This Strategy facilitates the implementation of the National Climate Change Research Policy by offering guidance to research partners on the existing critical knowledge gaps that limit climate change-relevant policy and decision making in the country and, therefore are the topics of interest for research collaboration with the government of Saint Lucia.
It contains broad topics and research questions, and indicative research activities across the following themes:
1. Cross-cutting research and information for science-based decision making
2. Biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services
3. Coastal, marine, and ocean environments
4. Food production (agriculture and fisheries, including aquaculture)
5. Water
6. Energy and transport
7. Human health
8. Human settlements, the urban environment, and critical infrastructure
9. Tourism
10. Human mobility (displacement, national relocation, and international migration as last-resort options due to climate change)
11. Climate risk transfer mechanisms

This Strategy aims to:
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<li>Achieve a higher rate of economic growth, which will generate jobs and energise the private sector as a whole and micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in particular;</li>
<li>Increase the resilience of both Saint Lucia’s economy and its society to both economic and natural disaster-related exogenous shocks;</li>
<li>Ensure that all subgroupings of the Saint Lucian society are adequately accommodated and represented in the development process;</li>
<li>Place the country's economy on a high growth path without compromising its fiscal position and environmental conditions; and</li>
<li>Ensure that all members of the society enjoy the benefits that will be derived from robust economic growth.</li>
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It contains sections on disaster risk management, resilience and sustainable development in response to climate change; efforts to promote cleaner energy to combat climate change; and reducing the exposure of the agricultural sector to climate change and climate variability.

This Policy's vision is that the best available science and evidence support the decisions that Saint Lucia’s institutions and people make to build resilience to climate change.
This Policy seeks to ensure that climate change-focused scientific research efforts conducted in the country address adaptation, mitigation, as well as loss and damage questions of national priority, offer high-quality data and information to support sectoral and cross-sectoral decision-making and outreach processes, and increase the capacity of Saint Lucia’s institutions to effectively execute the country’s climate change agenda. It establishes simple procedures to streamline the process of request and execution of research collaboration efforts on climate change issues between the GoSL and interested actors, to foster collaboration that contributes toward strengthening national research and technical capacities (e.g., capacities for the systematic observation and monitoring of climate, environmental and socioeconomic information) and to ensure that the country has access to and benefits from the results of all climate change-related research conducted in/on its territory.

This document is the fourth National Adaptation Plan (NAP) strategy prioritized in 2017.

The Climate Change Act (No. 3 of 2024) is an Act to implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol to provide for the functions of the Department responsible for climate change matters, to establish an electronic climate change database and the Climate Change Committee, to set the parameters for the development of a Climate Change Adaptation Policy, the National Adaptation Plan, the Nationally Determined Contribution, and to account for greenhouse gas emissions and for related matters.
The three aforementioned climate international agreements, and a protocol or agreement made under the UNFCCC have the force of law in Saint Lucia.
The Climate Change Adaptation Policy and the National Adaptation Plan are to be developed every five years. Individuals or organisations conducting research on climate change in St Lucia shall provide the Department with details of research activities and a copy of the final research findings.

The Electricity Supply Services (Amendment) Act revises the Electricity Supply Act of 1996, which gives an 80 year monopoly to the generation, transmission, distribution and sales of electricity to the Saint Lucia Electricity Services Ltd. It notably encourages the government to take appropriate regulations for the licensing and generation of energy production from renewables sources. The document defines renewables resources as being biomass, geothermal, heat, rain, sunlight, tides, waves and wind. 
 
The Act authorises the government to adopt regulations favouring renewables fiscally, through specific license fees and feed-in tariffs.

Technical analysis of the first biennial update report of Saint Lucia submitted on 30 December 2021. Summary report by the team of technical experts, Technical Analysis Summary Report from UNFCCC Secretariat in 2022

Saint Lucia's NAP Progress Report and Adaptation communication, National Adaptation Plan,Adaptation Communication from Saint Lucia in 2022

Saint Lucia. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 1., Biennial Update Report from Saint Lucia in 2021

Saint Lucia First NDC (Updated submission), Nationally Determined Contribution from Saint Lucia in 2021

5% of the electricity generated in 2013, at least 15% in 2015 and at least 30% by 2020 will originate from renewable energy sources

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