17 October 2022 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The Caribbean region is acutely threatened by climate change, particularly the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Grenada is no exception. The country is situated in the tropical cyclone belts and is directly exposed to the forces of the oceans. And as a small geographical area, disasters might...
6 September 2021 | Meetings and technical symposiums
This workshop is the second of a two-part series and is designed for technical officers responsible for GIS and application developers supporting DRM.
30 August 2021 | Meetings and technical symposiums
This workshop is the first of a two-part series and is designed for senior technical officers having responsibilities in selecting and using technologies to support DRM.
17 November 2020 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The Caribbean is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Indeed, the financial impact of disasters such as hurricanes on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is invariably several times greater than their gross domestic product (GDP). Governments of the subregion...
28 May 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
Este evento hace parte de las actividades que CEPAL realiza como una de las agencias implementadoras del componente Gobernanza Climática del Programa EUROCLIMA+.
18 December 2018 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The workshop seeks to learn more about Colombia's experience in the design, construction and implementation of municipal and departmental public policies related to climate change and to disaster risk.
24 January 2017 | Meetings and technical symposiums
ECLAC and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) have convened a four-day training course in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to improve the ability of policymakers from eight Caribbean countries to prepare for disasters and to assess their effects and impacts.
26 June 2015 | Monitoring committee
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic...
23 February 2011 | Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies
El cambio climático es, sin duda, uno de los desafíos más importantes que enfrenta la humanidad durante este siglo. La magnitud de sus impactos en las actividades económicas y sociales, en los ecosistemas y sus orígenes globales lo convierten en un tema de alcance planetario donde su posible...