Regional Seminar on Green Fiscal Policy Instruments, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability

The Regional Seminar on green fiscal policy instruments, climate change and fiscal sustainability held in San Jose, Costa Rica on November 7 and 8, 2018, aimed to provide an updated view of management and actions taken by the Treasury or Finance Ministries of the SICA countries internationally, in terms of fiscal and environmental sustainability, particularly in terms of green fiscal instruments, robust public investment in climate risks and budgetary classifiers, among others. Likewise, it sought to obtain elements to strengthen the priority lines of action of the COSEFIN Ministries, consider…

Regional Seminar on Green Fiscal Policy Instruments, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability

The event is held within the framework of the EUROCLIMA + Programme and seeks to support capacity building in the design of public investment projects and the formulation of green fiscal instruments to respond to climate change and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.…

Symposium on the Current Situation and Perspectives on Climate Change and Health in the State of Veracruz

With organization and sponsorship from the Directorate of Sanitation Risk Protection of the Secretary of Health of the Government of the State of Veracruz, a regional symposium on the current state as well as projections of climate change and regional health took place. Historical extreme events and phenomena at the regional and international level were analyzed with the purpose of training officials as the public who participated on developments in the topic. 96 individuals participated in the event, among whom 44 % were women. Participants came from the states of Campeche, Tabasco, Zacatecas…

Early Ratification of the Escazú Agreement: Regional action on Environmental Democracy to fulfill the vision of the 2030 SDG Agenda

Organized by UN ECLAC, the Governments of Costa Rica and Chile and the organizations The Access Initiative, Open Society Foundation, Namati, World Resources Institute, Amnesty International, Civicus and Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales-DAR. This celebratory event will be held on the occasion of the opening for signature of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (“Escazu Agreement”). The event will be held at the Open Society Foundation in New York.…

Side Event: Environmental democracy for sustainable societies

Organized by UN ECLAC in collaboration with Chile, Costa Rica, France, Italy, UN-ECE, UN ENVIRONMENT, and The Access Initiative in the margins of the 2018 High Level Political Forum of the United Nations July 11, 2018 (6:30pm – 8 pm) ECOSOC Chamber in the UN Conference Building, United Nations Headquarters, NY…

Seminar on the potential impacts of climate change on coffee and possible responses in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has found itself exposed to more frequent droughts and flooding in recent years, along with higher temperatures and various hurricanes, placing numerous Dominican families in greater vulnerability. Climate change represents a threat to food security and nutrition, living conditions, and rural population incomes because it affects agricultural activity, including basic foods and exports such as coffee. Thus, the challenge is to transition to more sustainable and inclusive agriculture to protect both the farm-based rural poor, as well as city-based food consumers. Th…

Seminar on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Food and Nutritional Security in Costa Rica

Climate change is undermining food security and nutrition, maintaining persons in poverty and inequality traps, threatening forest and water resources, biodiversity, sanitation and water quality. This is why the results of the Paris Treaty are closely related to sustainable development goals (SDGs) of zero hunger, sustainable agriculture, health, wellness, and clean water (SDG 2, 3, 6). Likewise, the SDGs relevant to energy, economic growth, employment, industry and infrastructure, resilient cities and societies, and biodiversity (SDG 7, 8, 9, 11, 15) imply various measures that will contribut…

Launching of Chile's Environmental Performance Review

Lanzamiento de la Evaluación de desempeño ambiental de Chile, instancia para un diálogo directo sobre la implementación de las recomendaciones que emanan del documento.…

Course and Regional Forum on Risk Management, Climate, and Sustainability in Public Investment Projects in Honduras

Within the scope of the project, The Economics of Climate Change in Central America and the Dominican Republic, launched by ECLAC from 2015 to 2017, and as a result of the dialogue between the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Treasury or Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (SE-COSEFIN) and ECLAC, the Executive Secretary of COSEFIN gave a presentation in meeting VI of the project’s Regional Technical Committee (CTR), a series of regional efforts was proposed to strengthen capabilities and analysis to increase the resilience of public investments in th…

Exploring solutions to the Caribbean debt challenge: Debt reduction through financing for climate adaptation swaps and a Caribbean Resilience Fund

The possibilities for integrating the twin imperatives of pursuing climate resilience and debt reduction, from a Caribbean perspective, will be considered at a side event during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21).…

UNFCCC regional workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean region on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)

Establishing NAMAs as a robust instrument for pre and post 2020 climate actions.…

International Seminar "Trade, industrialization and green growth: Exploring opportunities for cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Latin America"

ECLAC VI International Seminar on Carbon Footprint: "Environmental footprint pilot programs in exports"

This international seminar was carried out at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 11 and 12 June 2014 and has the support of the Regional Delegation for Cooperation in the Southern Cone and Brazil, Embassy of France. Current standards of environmental sustainability in industrialized countries and some examples of public-private partnerships from agricultural sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean will be reviewed. These experiences provide tools seek to implement strategies to climate change, and calculate and mitigate the environmental footprint of food. …

First Meeting of Environmental Information: Progress and Challenges towards Environmental Governance

The First Meeting of Environmental Information: Progress and Challenges towards Environmental Governance was held on December 3-4, 2013 at ECLAC's headquarters in Santiago, Chile.…

Inter-agency Assessment of Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, Gaps and Strategic Guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean

On 27 March 2012, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, ECLAC presented the inter-agency document Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, Gaps and Strategic Guidelines in Latin America & the Caribbean .…