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The Importance of Logistical Infrastructure for the Sustainable Exploitation of Natural Resources

21 Jun 2016 | News

During the first decade of this century, the rise in the prices of natural resources fueled the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. However, the region has been unable to generate a virtuous process to sustainably take advantage of this wealth. For this reason, a new governance of natural resources is needed that ensures that the benefits of their exploitation are sustainable and that they are transformed into a concrete contribution to full development, helping to reduce existing inequalities, ECLAC indicates in its book Towards a New Governance of Natural Resources in Latin America…

Fostering Industrialization and Value Chains is Crucial for Taking Advantage of the Region’s Natural Resources

20 Jun 2016 | News

Demand for metal mining, led by China, had positive consequences for Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of exports and fiscal revenue in the last decade; however, the region did not make progress on a policy of industrialization: the linkages with other sectors are still weak and policies are lacking for mining to contribute to the creation of new capacities, ECLAC indicates in its latest annual report Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016. According to the document, in the last 15 years the average relative weight of natural resources in the total flows of Fo…

Speaker of the Swedish Parliament and ECLAC’s Experts Shared Views on Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Mar 2016 | News

On an official visit to Chile, the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin participated on Monday, March 7 in a round table at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, in which they addressed the region’s economic, social and environmental challenges. The senior official and his delegation, formed by Kiefer Jakob, Sweden’s Ambassador to Chile and other representatives of the Swedish Parliament, the Embassy of Sweden in Chile and the Chilean-Swedish Institute of Culture, were received by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antoni…

ECLAC and PAHO Will Analyze Road Safety and Its Importance to Sustainable Development

9 Sep 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will hold a side event about road safety in the region in the framework of the Second Global High-Level Conference on this topic, which will take place in Brazil on November 18-19, 2015. According to both United Nations organizations, safe, convenient and accessibly priced mobility is one of the premises of sustainable development and the post-2015 agenda goals. For that reason, road safety must be part of public policy at a national and regional level. Participants in the side e…

ECLAC and MIT Sloan School of Management Organize Seminar on the Future of Energy

13 Aug 2015 | Announcement

Authorities in the region, scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), international officials and business leaders will meet on August 18-19 at the seminar The Future of Energy: Latin America’s Path to Sustainability, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the MIT Sloan School of Management. The event, which will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, is being carried out in the framework of the UN Secretary-General’s initiative “Sustainable Energy for ALL” (SE4ALL), which aims to ensure universal access to sustaina…

Latin American and Norwegian Perspective on Public Policies for Equality Will Be Analyzed in a Seminar

26 Mar 2015 | Announcement

Public policies geared toward equality in the labor market, education and social protection, among other areas, will be examined by government officials and academics during a seminar to be held on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday 31, 2015 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The high-level seminar “Paths Toward Equality and Development: Latin America-Norway Dialogue” is organized by ECLAC and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be opened on March 30, at 0900 a.m. by Hege Araldsen, Norwegian Ambassador to Chil…

Natural Resources Governance and Energy Efficiency Will Be Analyzed at Two Events

1 Sep 2014 | Announcement

Authorities from the region's countries and experts at international organizations will meet on November 26 at the Commission's headquarters in Santiago, Chile, at the high-level roundtable A Latin American view on the governance of natural resources for equality, where they will discuss and explore in depth the current paradigm for exploiting these resources. In recent years, Latin American and Caribbean countries have lived through a period of high prices for their natural resources, but the region has not taken advantage of the investment potential of these surpluses to move towards develop…

Agricultural Sector Expected to Be Worst Affected by Climate Change in Bolivia

6 Aug 2014 | News

The Study of the Economics of Climate Change in Bolivia, presented on Monday 4 August in La Paz, provides the first estimate of the costs of climate change based on biophysical and economic analyses of the links between climate and production sectors. The document was coordinated by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with contributions from the Ministries of Environment and Water, Economy and Public Finances, Development Planning and External Relations of Bolivia. On average, total losses caused by climate cha…

ECLAC Promotes Better Governance of Natural Resources to Maximize their Contribution to Regional Development

5 Mar 2014 | News

In a new publication, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) poses the need to promote better governance of natural resources in the region to maximize their contribution to development with equality and sustainability, as well as to foster the long-term structural change associated with innovation and technological development that reduces dependence on extractive sectors. The report, entitled Natural resources: status and trends towards a regional development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, is an ECLAC contribution to the debates inside …

Building Regional Electricity Stations Is Vital for Energy Integration in Central America

2 Jul 2013 | News

The recent operational launch of the Central American Electrical Interconnection System (SIEPAC) means it is now urgent to promote generation projects to partially or totally export energy using the existing (national and regional) transmission structure. However, the launch of the SIEPAC line is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the development of regional generation projects. This is one of the main issues examined in the document Analysis of the regional electricity market in Central America and actions to boost regional generation projects (Spanish only), pub…

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