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Sixth meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2023

25 - 28 April 2023 | Event (Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development)

At the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in Mexico City from 23 to 27 May 2016, the member States adopted resolution 700 (XXXVI), Mexico Resolution, which established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development as a regional mechanism to follow up and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its means of implementation, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The Economic and So…

Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

20 April 2023, 04:30 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC, from its acronym in Spanish) is an initiative carried out jointly by parliamentary leaders from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with the aim of constituting a shared information tool on the state of environmental legislation and parliamentary treatment in the region. The Summit represents an opportunity for dialogue among legislators from LAC with the objective to strengthen climate ambition in the region. The main objectives of the Summit include: Presentation of a joint statement that exp…

Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

20 April 2023, 04:30 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC, from its acronym in Spanish) is an initiative carried out jointly by parliamentary leaders from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with the aim of constituting a shared information tool on the state of environmental legislation and parliamentary treatment in the region. The Summit represents an opportunity for dialogue among legislators from LAC with the objective to strengthen climate ambition in the region. The main objectives of the Summit include: Presentation o…

Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement (COP2)

19 - 21 April 2023 | Event (Intergovernmental meetings)

The extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties will be in person between 19 and 21 April 2023 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. The aim of the meeting will be to elect the inaugural members of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance and consider any other matter decided by the Parties. All information about the COP2 is available at: https://acuerdodeescazu.cepal.org/cop2/en…

JRC/ESTAT – ECLAC Collaboration on FIGARO ACT II

30 - 31 March 2023 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

Meeting of the JRC/ESTAT - ECLAC will discuss the collaboration on FIGARO ACT II. FIGARO tables are a new statistical product for economic modelling. Since 2021, they are produced annually, linking national accounts with data on business, trade and jobs for EU Member States and 18 main EU trading partners; a ‘rest of the world’ region completes the FIGARO tables. Date: 30 - 31 March 2023 Location: Seville, Spain Chair: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche Short Agenda: a) FIGARO framework and ECLAC IOTs b) Data collection and transformation process c) Main challenges and problems of assembling…

22 March 2023 – The sixth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development (April 24-28, 2023)

22 March 2023, 15:00 - 17:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This Community of Practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in general and the preparation of VNRs in particular; and aims to provide a space to regularly communicate with peers. PARTICIPANTSArgentina, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela SESSION GOALThe specific goal of this session was to i…

Review the participation of ECLAC promoting the action agenda for water for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Water Conference

22 - 24 March 2023 | Event (Other events)

ECLAC has presented a Regional Action Agenda for Water, which consolidates the commitments of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Water Conference in New York. This, to face the challenge of achieving Goal 6 of the 2023 Sustainable Development Agenda, to guarantee the availability of water and its sustainable management and sanitation for all.…

Implementing Global Principles on Responsible Business Conduct: transparency, human rights and anti-corruption obligations in practice

16 March 2023, 06:00 - 11:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Transparency, responsible business conduct with regard to environmental, social and governance responsibilities have become an integral part of any business vocabulary in the last decades. Companies who can show to internal guidelines, best practices and transparent processes of due diligence will have a competitive benefit and gain the trust of the consumers. At the same time, companies have increased in size and areas of operation, making them necessary global actors in ensuring human rights, anticorruption and sustainable development. Both Norway and Chile have adopted the UN Guiding Princi…

ECLAC participated in the National Meeting of the Water for Life Dialogues, organized in the City of La Paz, Bolivia.

14 March 2023, 07:00 - 08:00 | Event (Other events)

ECLAC's Natural Resources Division participated in the National Meeting of the Water for Life Dialogues , an event whose objective is to present the position of the Plurinational State of Bolivia regarding water for life, in the preparation for the World Water Conference of the United Nations, scheduled for March 22 and 24.…

Roundtable "Opportunities to move towards universal social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: the role of interregional dialogue"

14 March 2023, 07:00 - 09:30 | Event (Other events)

This online event is organized under the framework of two projects: “Social protection and vulnerability: universal social protection systems in Latin America” of the Facility for Development in Transition, financed by the European Union, and the ECLAC-BMZ/giz project “Transformative Reactivation: Overcoming the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This event also contributes to the preparative works of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean to be held next October. Simultaneous interpretation spanish-english-spanish w…

Preparatory meeting for the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement (preCOP2)

6 March 2023, 08:00 - 11:00 | Event (Intergovernmental meetings)

The preparatory meeting for the Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement (preCOP2) will take place virtually on 6 March 2023 between 11 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. Santiago, Chile time. The matters to be addressed at the extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties being held in Buenos Aires, from 19-21 April 2023, will be discussed. These include the election of the inaugural members of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance and consider any other matter decided by the Parties. For more information about the meeting, please visit:&nbs…

Rethinking global taxation

2 March - 3 May 2023 | Event (Other events)

FEDESARROLLO Colombia ( video of the academic event of the Colombian Ministry of Finance entitled Rethinking Global Taxation )…

Learning Lab: Disaster Statistics

1 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This activity, organized by ECLAC, was carried out within the framework of the eighth session of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (PR23), which took place from February 28 to March 2023 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which was sponsored by the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.…

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