Realizing a Future We Want in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda

The Government of Mexico, with the support of ECLAC, organized a regional consultation of civil society Performing the future we want in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Development Agenda post-2015 held on 17 to 19 April 2013.…

Second Meeting of the Signatory Countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The second meeting of designated Focal Points by the Governments of the signatory countries of the Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is to review and approve to Plan of Action adopted until 2014. This Plan includes the procedures for public participation in the process, the functions of the Board and the Technical Secretariat.…

Regional Conference on Freedom of Information Laws (FOI) in the Caribbean - Improving Management for the Environment

Regional Workshop on the implementation of Rio Principle 10 in the Caribbean Region

This Regional Workshop, was organized by ECLAC, UNEP, UNITAR and WRI-TAI and was held on September 16-17, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness, discuss and build capacity among countries in the region on Principle 10, the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Bali Guidelines.…

Briefing and discussion session on the recent Regional Conference on Sustainable Development

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia supported by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) hosted a briefing and discussion session about the recent Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 and to Rio+20 held from 5 to 9 March 2013 in Bogotá and chaired by the Government of Colombia.…

Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century

The Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century held the 5-6 of March in the Red Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel. The meeting focused on development goals, global and regional governance and the discussion, from a regional perspective, of agreements adopted in order to inform the ongoing global processes.…

Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 in the Monserrate Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel in Bógota, Colombia on 7-9 of March 2013.…

Side Event on the Declaration of Principle 10 at the meeting of the Governing Council of the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP)

First meeting of the focal points designated by the governments of the countries that signed the declaration on the application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean

The first meeting of the focal points designated by the governments of the countries that signed the declaration on the application of principle 10 was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, November 6-7, 2012.…

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 .…

Regional preparatory process for Latin America and the Caribbean

In the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting Preparatory to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, from 7 to September 9 2011, countries agreed to a joint conclusion.…

Ninth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Aldo Ferrer entitled: "Development and Globalization: Prebisch's Approach Today"

VIII Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Fernando Savater Martín entitled: "A Historical Look at ECLAC in its Era"

Seventh Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Tulio Halperin Donghi entitled: "A Historical Look at ECLAC in its Era"

Sixth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Enrique V. Iglesias entitled: "The return of the State in development strategies"

Fifth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Dani Rodrik entitled: "Policies for Economic Diversification?"

Thirtieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The thirtieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 28 June to 2 July 2004. Pursuant to resolution 596(XXIX) as adopted at the twenty-ninth session of ECLAC (Brasilia, Brazil, 6-10 May 2002), member States agreed that the meeting would be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.…

Third Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso entitled: "Beyond the economy: interactions between policy and economic "

Second Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Joseph Stiglitz entitled: "Whither Reforms? Towards a New Agenda for Latin America"