The Ninth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Sixth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region was convened by the Executive Director of UNEP, in Kingston, Jamaica, 14-18 February 2000. The Meeting was convened to review the achievements of the Caribbean Environment Programme and to make decisions with regard to moving the Caribbean Environment Programme into the new millennium