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Alicia Bárcena Presents Details about the Forum on sustainable development and ECLAC’s 37th Session to Member Countries

19 Mar 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and diplomatic representatives of the United Nations regional organization’s member countries held an informational meeting today about important regional gatherings that will take place next April and May in Santiago, Chile and Havana, Cuba, respectively. The meeting, held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile, was attended by representatives of the diplomatic corps from numerous countries in the region, as well as from the Commission’s members outside the region. During the gathering, A…

Cuba will be the Site of ECLAC’s Most Important Biennial Meeting

23 Feb 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met today with the Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, where they signed an agreement confirming that Cuba will be the host country of ECLAC’s thirty-seventh session, which is the regional organization’s most important biennial gathering and which will be held on May 7-11 in Havana. The designation of Cuba was enthusiastically endorsed by ECLAC’s member countries at the conclusion of the work carried …

Countries of the Region Expect to Conclude Negotiations of Regional Agreement on Environmental Matters in Costa Rica

22 Feb 2018 | Announcement

Government delegates from the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that are negotiating a regional agreement regarding access to environmental information, participation and justice (Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development) will meet in San Jose, Costa Rica, to conclude the negotiations on this legal instrument, the first of its kind in the region. The Ninth Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Principle 10 will take place from February 28 to March 4 in the Hotel Real Intercontinental of the Costa Rican capital. It will be inaugur…

Financial Inclusion of Small Rural Producers is a Key Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development with Equality: ECLAC

22 Dec 2017 | News

Progressive structural change in rural areas requires innovative strategies and tools for its implementation, together with greater capacity for coordination among multiple actors and instruments, where the public sector is strategically placed to serve as a catalyst, according to a new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Financial inclusion of small rural producers reveals the vast inequalities existing in rural areas where, according to the latest estimates, poverty and indigence rates practically double those of urban areas. This means tha…

In a New Report, ECLAC Analyses Trends in Regional Poverty and the Situation of the Pension Systems in Latin America

18 Dec 2017 | Announcement

On Wednesday 20 December, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil its report Social Panorama of Latin America 2017, which examines the evolution of regional poverty and presents an analysis of the pension systems in Latin America and their challenges in the face of the current demographic transition. The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will give a press conference at 9 a.m. (GMT-6) in the building of the Commission’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, to present the main findings of the publication. The presentation will be …

What is the Bioeconomy and How Developed is it in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 Dec 2017 | News

“There is great potential in Latin America for developing the bioeconomy as an alternative for diversifying production and adding value in the rural setting, especially in the agricultural and agroindustrial sectors,” indicates a new study published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), entitled Bioeconomía en América Latina y el Caribe: contexto global y regional y perspectivas (Bioeconomy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Global and Regional Context and Perspectives). Despite this potential, the concept has received little public policy attention from coun…

ECLAC Advocates for Caribbean's Debt Swap Proposal and Establishes Task Force for Its Implementation

12 Dec 2017 | News

Representatives from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented on Monday 20 November the organization’s debt for climate adaptation swaps proposal for the Caribbean nations striken by the recent hurricane season, during a high level conference held in the United Nations’ headquarters in New York. The CARICOM-UN High Level Pledging Conference: “Building a more Climate Resilient Community”, was convened by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and looked to mobilise international support for its M…

Alicia Bárcena Urges Construction of Markets at the Service of Society

28 Nov 2017 | News

“We must build a future that effectively recognizes the market, but a market that is at the service of society, and not a society at the service of the market,” asserted Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) today during the closing ceremony of the international forum The Siege Upon Civilization: From Wall to Wall, held today in Mexico. The ECLAC senior representative was invited to close the event organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University of Guadalajara (UDG). During her remarks, Ali…

Latest Round of Negotiations to Reach a Regional Agreement on Environmental Matters Will Take Place in Santiago, Chile

23 Nov 2017 | Announcement

Government representatives from the 24 countries in the region that are negotiating a regional agreement on access to environmental information, participation and justice (Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development) will gather at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to continue negotiations on an unprecedented legal instrument in this area. The Eighth Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Principle 10 will take place from November 27 to December 1 at the United Nations or…

ECLAC Advocates for Debt Relief Proposal during Conference on Hurricane Striken Caribbean Held in New York

20 Nov 2017 | News

Representatives from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented this Monday 20 November the organization’s debt for climate adaptation swaps proposal for the Caribbean nations striken by the recent hurricane season, during a high level conference being held in the United Nations’ headquarters in New York until Tuesday 21 November. The CARICOM-UN High Level Pledging Conference: “Building a more Climate Resilient Community”, was convened by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and looks to mobilis…

Alicia Bárcena Reaffirms Need for a New Development Model at High-level Forum alongside Noam Chomsky and Nobel Prize Winner Mario Molina

15 Nov 2017 | News

“Latin America and the Caribbean needs to move toward a new development paradigm based on equality and environmental sustainability as the drivers of growth. The current model, capitalism, doesn’t work,” Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated this Wednesday, November 15, at a high-level forum held in Mexico City. Bárcena participated in the opening session of the international forum The Siege Upon Civilization: From Wall to Wall – organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University o…

Specialists Underscore Importance of Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information and Discuss Priorities for Regional Strategic Plan

14 Nov 2017 | News

In a context of accelerated geopolitical, economic and technological changes, with pressing phenomena such as migration and climate change, the countries of the region – via the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) –are working on a strategic plan to integrate statistical and geospatial data and thereby make progress on achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, said today in Aguascalientes, Mexico. “Humanity will need all available instruments to transform our developmen…

Mexico will be Host to the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

10 Nov 2017 | Announcement

Authorities and representatives from national statistics offices and National Statistical Systems of the member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will gather in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico for the Ninth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region, which will be held on November 14-16, 2017. The event – organized by the government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), and ECLAC – will continue promoting inter…

China and ECLAC Strengthen their Cooperation to Foster Trade and Investment with Latin America and the Caribbean

9 Nov 2017 | News

In the context of a tour through China, ECLAC’s Director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division and Officer-in-Charge of its International Trade and Integration Division, Mario Cimoli, met this Thursday, November 9, with government authorities from that country and participated as the main speaker in the China-Latin America and the Caribbean International Exposition (CLAC Expo), one of the biggest business gatherings between both areas. The official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – who traveled to China in representation of Alicia Bárc…

Alicia Bárcena: “We Must Advance toward a Regional Agenda on Inclusive Social Development on the Road to 2030”

26 Oct 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), called today for progress in designing a regional agenda on inclusive social development that would allow countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the 2030 Agenda, which was approved by the international community in 2015. ECLAC’s most senior representative presented the position document Linkages between the social and production spheres: Gaps, pillars and challenges, which is the subject of debate at the Second Meeting of the Regional Conference on Soc…

President of Uruguay Will Inaugurate the Second Meeting of ECLAC’s Regional Conference on Social Development

18 Oct 2017 | Announcement

The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, will lead the inauguration of the Second Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 4 p.m. local time. This meeting will take place in the facilities of the Secretariat of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in Montevideo. The president will be accompanied by Uruguay’s Minister of Social Development, Marina Arismendi; the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC…

Opportunities for Cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean Are Underscored in Academic Forum at ECLAC

17 Oct 2017 | News

Authorities and experts inaugurated the First CELAC-China High-level Academic Forum this Tuesday, October 17, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, recognizing the enormous opportunities for economic, social, political and cultural cooperation between the Asian giant and the Latin American and Caribbean region, particularly in the current international context marked by uncertainty, the effects of climate change and the revival of protectionist trends. The event, which runs through Wednesday, October 18, was organized by …

ECLAC Calls on Countries to Adopt Comprehensive Planning Approaches for Territorial and Urban Development

13 Oct 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) called on the region’s countries to adopt comprehensive planning approaches that can account for and address the diverse and complex problems related to territorial and urban development, at the IV Planning Sessions on sustainable territories and cities that took place today in Lima, Peru. The gathering, held in the framework of the XVI Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, was organized by ECLAC, the government of the Republic of Korea and the Board of Directors of Peru’s National Center for Strategic Planning (CEPLAN…

Cities Conference Concluded at ECLAC with Session on Mobility and Sustainable Urban Transportation

6 Oct 2017 | News

After five days of debates and of exchanging experiences, the Cities Conference held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile concluded on Friday, October 6 with a call for dialogue among public and private stakeholders on the implementation of safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the last day of the gathering – co-organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Assembly of Ministers and High Authorities of Housing and Urban Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI), and UN-Habitat – author…

Authorities on Women’s Issues Agreed to Continue Strengthening the Institutional Architecture for Advancing toward Gender Equality in the Region

6 Oct 2017 | News

Authorities from mechanisms for women’s advancement in Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Havana, Cuba today agreed to continue strengthening their countries’ institutional architecture as well as to consolidate the dialogue and regional cooperation aimed at moving toward gender equality in the region. On October 5-6, the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba. It was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the government of …

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