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

8 - 10 August 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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

10 - 11 May 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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

21 July 2016, 05:00 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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

11 - 15 April 2016 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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…

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

11 - 12 June 2014 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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. …

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