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Caribbean activities related to measuring environment, climate change and disasters indicators for policy decision-making

24 November 2021, 10:00 - 11:15 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This is a side-event of the Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, organized by the Statistics Division of ECLAC. Experiences related to indicators produced or developed by countries of the subregion will be presented, as well as progress in the production of a resilience database for the Caribbean subregion.…

Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative - CARIGEO

8 April 2021, 09:30 - 10:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This is a side-event of Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, organized by UN-GGIM: Américas.…

Kick-off webinar on Introduction to climate change and disaster statistics in the Caribbean

9 - 11 March 2021 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Compared to other regions of the world, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made a minor contribution to climate change. Nonetheless, the region is acutely vulnerable to its negative consequences, particularly the small island developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean that have been continuously impacted by hazardous events, such as tropical storms, floods or landslides.…

Financing and Planning for Disaster Risk Management in Caribbean Small Islands Developing States

17 November 2020, 10:00 - 13:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Caribbean is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Indeed, the financial impact of disasters such as hurricanes on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is invariably several times greater than their gross domestic product (GDP). Governments of the subregion therefore must continue to seek innovative approaches to mobilize both domestic and external sources to finance their sustainable development and resilience efforts.…

Virtual seminar towards the implementation of the Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters in the Americas

4 August 2020, 07:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This webinar attempts to convene national representatives from diverse sectors that contribute in the geospatial response to disasters – national geospatial agencies, national statistics offices, risk and disaster management organizations, and many other representatives from the public, academic and private sectors related to the topic.…

Tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

19 - 21 November 2019 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

La Décima Reunión de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) se llevará a cabo en Santiago, del 19 al 21 de noviembre de 2019. El Programa Bienal de Actividades de Cooperación Regional e Internacional 2018-2019 de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas se enmarca en el Plan Estratégico, 2015-2025, que establece como ejes de acción el fortalecimiento institucional y el papel rector de las oficinas nacionales de estadística, el desarrollo de los recursos humanos y de la producción estadística para asegurar su calidad y…

Regional Workshop: Public Policies for Disaster Risk Management

18 - 19 December 2018 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The workshop seeks to learn more about Colombia's experience in the design, construction and implementation of municipal and departmental public policies related to climate change and to disaster risk.…

Disaster assessment methodology training

21 - 23 June 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).…

Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Building

14 - 16 March 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The training course will focus on strengthening the capacity of member States in the assessment of the effects and impacts of disasters in the Caribbean in light of the 2030 development instruments.…

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

26 June 2015, 05:30 - 15:00 | Event (Monitoring committee)

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

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