Virtual Regional Workshop on External Financing and Climate-Resilient Development

This virtual regional dialogue aims to share lessons learned from the Development Account – Tranche 14 project entitled “Mobilizing External Financial Resources Beyond COVID-19 for Greener, Fairer, and More Sustainable Development in Selected Vulnerable SIDS in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.” It also seeks to highlight the usefulness of the financial strategy and roadmap for mobilizing climate financing developed under the project for the Union of the Comoros and Cabo Verde, which could be adapted and used by other countries in the future.…

Subregional Capacity Building Workshop on the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States (ABAS) and its Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework

This workshop, organized by DESA, ECLAC, and the CARICOM Secretariat, is expected to produce a workplan for the establishment of national institutional mechanisms for synergistic implementation of the ABAS and the SDGs. It will result in the validation of the ABAS M&E framework through direct input from SIDS statistical and policy experts, ensuring that national institutional mechanisms and M&E framework build on existing capacities, reflects national realities and can be effectively integrated into country national development planning framework and data systems, respectively.…

Twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.…

The MonCom Seminar: Unlocking Caribbean potential: enhancing growth and development through South-South cooperation

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee. This is preceded by the MonCom Seminar. This year's theme Unlocking Caribbean potential: enhancing growth and development through South-South cooperation.…

Virtual meeting of the open-ended ad hoc working group on human rights defenders in environmental matters

(Virtual) Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean Date: 4 December 2025 Time: 12.00-13.30, Santiago de Chile Objectives of the meeting: Discuss the latest progress in the regional assessment of the situation of individuals, groups, and organisations promoting and defending human rights in environmental matters To inform about the next steps in the process. Format of the m…

Virtual Expert Group Meeting to Review the 2020 round of population and Housing Censuses in the Caribbean

A meeting of experts to discuss a selected area of statistics for sustainable development in the Caribbean Census.…

Multistakeholder support for Escazu and Aarhus implementation

Side event at the 8th meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention …

Eighth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance

The eighth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance will be held virtually on 20 November 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Santiago, Chile time. The session is open to the public upon registration in Webex. For more information, please visit the eighth meeting section of the Implementation and Compliance Support Committee website.…

Youth Tourpreneurship Bootcamp: Dominica and Saint Lucia

To guide young people in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines into seeing tourism not as something that only large tour companies, hotels and cruise ships run, but as something they too can do, while placing them on a path to self-sustainability.…

Youth Tourpreneurship Bootcamp: Antigua & Barbuda and Grenada

To guide young people in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines into seeing tourism not as something that only large tour companies, hotels and cruise ships run, but as something they too can do, while placing them on a path to self-sustainability.…

Youth Tourpreneurship Bootcamp: Saint Kitts & Nevis and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines

To guide young people in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines into seeing tourism not as something that only large tour companies, hotels and cruise ships run, but as something they too can do, while placing them on a path to self-sustainability.…

Calculate to Eradicate: A Symposium On Statistics For Poverty Reduction In The Caribbean

The symposium will explore the different roles that data can play in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of interventions, and will include a particular focus on the need for better official statistics on poverty in the Caribbean, both multidimensional poverty and monetary poverty. …

Seventh meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance

The seventh session of the Implementation and Compliance Support Committee will be held in person in Panama City on October 9, 2025, between 9:00 and 11:00 Panama City time. The session is open to the public upon registration.…

Seminar on Ocean-based Climate Action in Support of Blue Economy Advancement in Trinidad and Tobago and the Wider Caribbean Region

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA), Ministry of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development of Trinidad and Tobago and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is organizing a seminar on ocean-based climate action in the Caribbean.…

Roundtable: Advancing access to information for environmental protection in Latin America

On the occasion of the International Day of Universal Access to Information, on September 26, 2025, the roundtable "Advancing Access to Information for Environmental Protection in Latin America" ​​will be held.…

Regional and National Dialogues on External Financing and Climate-Resilient Development

Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…

Escazú Agreement: Implementation and tools for the Public Defense of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

The training session "Escazú Agreement: Implementation and Tools for the Public Defense of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires" will be held on September 23 and 25. It is aimed at all members of the Public Defense Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.…

Virtual meeting of the open-ended ad hoc working group on human rights defenders in environmental matters

The open-ended ad hoc working group on human rights defenders in environmental matters will hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday, 9 September, from 12:00 to 13:30 hrs, Chile time (GMT-3). The meeting is open to all members of the public. The objective of the meeting will be to address the elaboration of the regional assessment of the Action Plan on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters and to collect the impressions of the Parties and the public. To participate, prior registration is required on Webex…

Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Escazú Agreement

Visit to Panama of the Committee to Support the Implementation and Compliance of the Escazú Agreement

The Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance, within its role of consultation and periodic dialogue with the Parties, will visit the Republic of Panama from October 6 to 8, 2025.…