Regional Blue Talk: Latin America and the Caribbean On the Road to the Third United Nations Ocean Conference 2025 - Virtual Event

The Regional Blue Talk is a preparatory dialogue space for the UNOC3, where experts, government representatives, and key stakeholders can identify regional and subregional priorities, specificities, and challenges, share experiences, and formulate recommendations that contribute to building a shared regional perspective.…

UN Regional Commissions’ High-Level Side Event at CBD COP-16: Key Actions for Interregional and Regional Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

The United Nations Regional Commissions (RegComs) with their ability in addressing cross-sectoral and transboundary issues as well as their specific mandates as catalysts for transformative actions, hold a vital role in supporting Member States in their efforts to achieve the goals of integrated and interlinked frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), the climate agenda and inclusive and sustainable economic transformation. RegComs are deploying efforts to address the challenge of sustainable use and management of biodiversity, includi…

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

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…

Resource mobilization, LAC Experts Issue Group Meeting on Post-2020 GBF

Goals and Targets, LAC Experts Issue Group Meeting on Post-2020 GBF

Seminar: Latin American & Caribbean perspectives on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

The Latin American and Caribbean region is extraordinarily privileged in terms of biodiversity, and LAC countries are among the most active and influential in international biodiversity negotiations. The region has seen many developments in biodiversity and environmental governance in the last decades and has experienced successes but also witnessed how the institutional landscape for biodiversity can remain fragile. The region has therefore much to contribute to debates on post-2020 biodiversity governance.…