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Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

26 - 27 March 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…

Heading to COP 30: NDC 3.0, investments and financing

27 - 29 January 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The event brings together representatives from ministries of environment, planning, and finance, along with actors from the financial and private sectors. Its goal is to design roadmaps toward more ambitious climate goals in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of COP30. This space aims to foster international cooperation, review lessons learned, and explore financing opportunities to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), ensuring socio-economic co-benefits and resilience to climate change.…

Fifth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance

16 October 2024, 09:00 - 10:30 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

The fifth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance will be held virtually on 16 October 2024, between 12:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile time. The objective of the meeting will be to report on the activities carried out by the Committee since the last meeting, held on 25 April 2024, as well as to report on the visit that it will make to the Republic of Chile from November 4 to 8, 2024, within the framework of its function of consultation and periodic dialogue with the Parties. The session is open to the public up…

Regional multilateralism to implement access rights: The leading example of the Escazú Agreement

4 June 2024, 02:30 - 03:30 | Event (Meetings of the United Nations system)

The event seeks to raise international awareness of the Escazú Agreement, share valuable insights and good practices from the region, and facilitate dialogue among national focal points and other stakeholders on the implementation of the Agreement’s provisions relates to access rights and the protection of environmental defenders.…

Climate change and environmental legislation in support of the delivery of the new Programme of Action for SIDS

29 May 2024, 00:00 - 01:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This side event will take place at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS-4). Convened by the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC), it will discuss how robust legal frameworks can unlock climate finance for building resilience and enhancing institutional capacities in Caribbean SIDS. The event will also explore ways the OPCC can collaborate to bolster environmental and climate change legislation in the region.…

Open virtual meeting of the open-ended ad hoc working group on human rights defenders in environmental matters

31 August 2023, 08:00 - 09:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The objective of the meeting will be to share the results of the consultation on the annotated index of the action plan on human rights defenders in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean and the proposals for improvement of the index based thereon, so as to advance in the preparation of the draft action plan. The Secretariat will also inform about the organization of the Second Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters that will take place in Panama City between 26 and 28 September 2023.…

Advancing the realization of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the Amazon basin

6 August 2023, 10:00 - 12:00 | Event (Other events)

In person side event organized in the framework of the Amazon Summit by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the United Nations Environment Programme, with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).…

Matchmaking: showcases of green technologies

22 - 28 June 2023 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The event “Matchmaking: showcases of green technologies”, held exclusively online, will take place from 22 to 28 June 2023. The event is promoted by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Brazil, with the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC) of Brazil, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Euroclima+ Program of the European Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Centre for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE), Ação AL INVEST Verde DPI and the Royal Danish Embassy in Brazil. The showcase pres…

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…

The economics of biodiversity in climate change times: a renewed challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean - A conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta

16 January 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Sir Partha Dasgupta, leader of the project The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, (London: HM Treasury), 2021. To be republished by Cambridge University Press, 2022. This is a study similar to that of Sir Nicholas Stern, applied to the costing of biodiversity loss and options for its incorporation into economic accounting and for better targeting of investment and its real costs. Sir Dasgupta is a global eminence in biodiversity and economics, so it is a singular occasion, it is the first time he visits ECLAC, he had a prominent role in the IPBES initiative of the United Nations C…

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