12th Biennial Congress and Caribbean Youth Environmental Summit

Evaluation of the project 'Sustainable Energy in the Caribbean: Reducing the Carbon Footprint in the Caribbean through the Promotion of Energy Efficiency and the Use of Renewable Energy Technologies'

The project entitled “Sustainable Energy in the Caribbean: Reducing the Carbon Footprint in the Caribbean through the Promotion of Energy Efficiency (EE) and the Use of Renewable Energy (RE) Technologies” seeks to strengthen the capacity of Caribbean countries in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy. The high-level meeting in Port of Spain will be jointly convened by ECLAC Caribbean and GIZ to assess the impact of this project, implemented from 1 July 2014 to 30 September 2016.…

Fourth meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Principle 10)

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.…

Seminar "Mining, Sustainable Development Goals and environmental democracy in Andean countries"

El Seminario tiene como objetivos ofrecer una instancia de discusión y reflexión de cómo la minería puede contribuir a alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en los Países Andinos, con énfasis en el ODS 16, y fomentar el diálogo entre expertos en minería y medio ambiente en la región.…

Round Table on Principle 10 at the Brazilian Congress on Environmental Law

Presentation of the recommendations of Peru's first Environmental Performance Review (ECLAC/OECD)

The recommendations of Peru's Environmental Performance Review, undertaken jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be presented on 31 May 2016 at the headquarters of Ministry of the Environment of Peru. It is first time the country goes through this peer review in which the environmental policies and programmes are analized with a view to identify good practices and challenges and propose recommendations. The Minister of the Environment of Peru, Manuel Pulgar-V…

UNEA-2 Side Event: Regional Efforts to Enhance the Application of Principle 10 for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The session is the most important event of each biennium for ECLAC. It provides a forum for the consideration of issues of importance for the economic and social development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the progress of the Commission’s activities and oversee its work.…

International Seminar: The Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean

The International seminar Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on the upcoming 18th and 19th of May in the mornings at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The seminar proposes the creation of a space where to reflect on the challenges of the future construction raised by the Sustainable Development Goals. During this event, the Third Planning for Development Sessions will be held, where selected papers related to medium and long term institutional processes will be presented. Those papers have had or may have a practical app…

Regional Policy Dialogue and Training Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the Caribbean

To date the technical work of the project has benefitted from inputs from Consultants, national energy policy makers, ECLAC specialists, and Regional Partners. It is anticipated that the technical and institutional resources of all of these partners would be applied in hosing this dialogue and training workshop.…

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…

Third meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The third meeting of the Negotiating Committee took place on 5 to 8 April 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The purpose of this meeting was to resume negotiations on the substantive content of the regional agreement, using as a basis the second version of the text compiled by the Presiding Officers, which includes the language proposals sent by countries. …

Workshop on public participation in environmental decision-making: trends, challenges and lessons learned

The workshop will have simultaneous interpretation from Spanish into English and viceversa. The programme and additional information are available at: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/3/en/programme/workshop-public-particip……

Symposium on the Promotion of an inclusive and accountable public administration for sustainable development

Organized by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia together with the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)…

Meeting for Pilot Countries of the Development Account, 9th Tranche on “Strengthening statistical capacities for building macroeconomic and sustainable development indicators in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia Pacific countries”

Second meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Principle 10)

The second meeting of the Negotiating Committee will take place on 27 to 29 October 2015 in Panama City. The purpose of this meeting is to negotiate the substantive content of the regional instrument. The negotiations will focus on the preamble and articles 1 to 10 of the preliminary document prepared by ECLAC at the request of countries, using as a basis the text compiled by the Presiding Officers, which includes the language proposals sent by countries by 31 August 2015.…

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.…

Regional Workshop on Carbon Finance for Latin America and the Caribbean

The workshop will bring together designated national authorities (DNAs), national focal points (NFPs) and mitigation experts from the region, as well as CDM project developers and representatives of environmental non-governmental organizations and international organizations.…

Intersessional meeting (virtual) of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean (Principle 10)