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Caribbean Countries Identify Challenges and Opportunities for Making Progress on Access Rights in Environmental Matters

25 Aug 2015 | News

Representatives from Caribbean countries are meeting on August 24-25 in Saint Lucia to identify opportunities for collective action on the path towards the full implementation of access rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters, enshrined in Principle 10 of the Declaration of the 1992 Rio Summit. The meeting is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). Participants include rep…

Data revolution for sustainable development: The Caribbean Challenge

21 Aug 2015 | News

The Caribbean region needs to take full advantage of the data revolution. Big data - a critical element of this revolution - is the term used to describe the enormous amount of digital information that is generated when people go about their daily activities, including shopping, talking, texting, internet surfing, and traveling. It also includes information about natural phenomena generated and/or transmitted by machines, including satellites. The main characteristics of these data that qualify them as Big data are that they are large in volume, they are generated very frequently and they cove…

ECLAC disaster assessment package targets policy makers and children in Costa Rica

31 Jul 2015 | News

Policy makers and children in Costa Rica will soon be better prepared to prevent and deal with disasters, as ECLAC Caribbean brings its disaster assessment package to the country. Officials from ECLAC Caribbean will visit Costa Rica from 3-5 August, at the invitation of the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN) to deliver training, this time not to emergency responders but instead to government policy makers, with emphasis on disaster assessment, pre-disaster preparation, prevention and incorporation of risk reduction policies. The training will benefit the new environme…

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

26 Jun 2015 | News

“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 Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

24 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless. The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

22 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June. This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean. Specifical…

ECLAC Trains Officials of the Region in Assessment of Disasters

19 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is strengthening the capacity of specialists and officials of Latin American and Caribbean countries to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters, with activities in Peru, Costa Rica and Saint Vicent and The Granadines. In the case of Peru, the training session in Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) was conducted in Cusco from 16 to 19 June at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction. This course served as the first …

New series of disaster assessment training sessions set to kick-off in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

18 Jun 2015 | News

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is the first of seven Caribbean countries to receive training on Post Disaster Needs Assessment from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The training will take place from 22nd to 25th June 2015, and will bring together expertise of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology of ECLAC Caribbean and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Trinidad and Tobago. Other countries to soon benefit from these training sessions are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Gr…

ECLAC identifies Caribbean priorities for inclusion in eLAC Digital Agenda 2018

17 Jun 2015 | News

The Caribbean needs to provide affordable and wider access to digital services, while taking advantage of the opportunities created by technological convergence and mobile technologies. As part of its continued support of these and other Caribbean priorities within the objectives of the eLAC 2018 Digital Agenda, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has outlined several objectives which will encourage broader input from the region. Representatives of Caribbean countries have been invited to an informational webinar, which…

ECLAC helps Peruvian officials better respond to disasters

16 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional office for the Caribbean is strengthening the capacity of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters. This is through a Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session that ECLAC Caribbean will conduct in Cusco, Peru from 16th to 19th June 2015. The training, which has been convened at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction in Peru, will benefit sectoral specialists, as well as experts from institutions invo…

ECLAC staff and local communities join forces on World Environment Day 2015

5 Jun 2015 | News

Staff members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean worked side by side with communities in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to protect and preserve the local environmental heritage, in a special commemoration of the United Nations World Environment Day 2015. Under the theme “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume With Care”, World Environment Day was celebrated this year on Friday 5th June. ECLAC staff partnered with two local non-governmental organizations, the Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (VCTT) and…

ECLAC Study on Foreign Direct Investment puts focus on the Caribbean

27 May 2015 | News

The Caribbean receives higher amounts of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) when compared to other developing economies, according to a newly published report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Entitled “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean”, the flagship report was launched by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, on 27 May at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. This year, the annual report places increased emphasis on the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the Caribbean. FDI inflows into the Carib…

Regional maritime passenger transportation system to be considered at ECLAC meeting

19 May 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will engage regional experts in discussions regarding the development of an inter-regional maritime passenger transportation system, which will encourage the maximum utilization of the region’s ample available maritime resource. The Caribbean embraces large maritime space, yet this resource remains vastly under-utilized. Opportunities exist for it to be developed for economic and other benefits for the region. The possibilities for developing a regional maritime transport system will be addressed when ECLAC’s subregional headq…

ECLAC panel discussion explores innovative financing solutions for the Caribbean

8 May 2015 | News

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, moderated a panel discussion at the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean on Thursday 7 May 2015, where he outlined important areas of focus for countries of the region, like the need to address the issue of debt relief in a sustainable manner and the possibility of mobilizing resources through diaspora bond issue and increased remittances. The session, entitled Advocating innovative financing solutions, which examined opportunities that exist for domestic and international deve…

ECLAC panel discussion explores innovative financing solutions for the Caribbean

7 May 2015 | News

ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado moderated the panel discussion entitled “Advocating innovative financing solutions” at the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean on Thursday 7 May 2015. The session, which examined opportunities that exist for domestic and international development financing for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), was considered especially timely given the upcoming United Nations Conference on Financing for Development being held in Addis Ababa in July. Mr. Prado outlined important areas of focus for countries of the region during the session, the firs…

ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary opens Caribbean Future Forum

5 May 2015 | News

ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado signaled that if the Caribbean is to achieve equitable growth in an environmentally sustainable manner, critical challenges will have to be addressed, the most urgent of these being the high and unsustainable levels of public debt. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean at the University of the West Indies St Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago on 05 May 2015, Mr. Prado identified the subregion as one of the most debt-constrained in the world. Noting that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean …

ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary to participate in Forum on the Future of the Caribbean, May 5-7

30 Apr 2015 | News

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, will participate in the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean from 5-7 May 2015 in Trinidad and Tobago. The Forum is co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the United Nations system in Trinidad and Tobago. Sessions will be held at the UWI St Augustine campus and the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port of Spain. During his first visit to the Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Prado will deliver opening remarks …

New ECLAC Study Analyzes Outcomes of the Trade Agreements Signed by CARICOM

31 Mar 2015 | News

Economies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) need to transform their production systems in order to generate an expansion in exports and to take advantage of the market access opportunities provided by the trade arrangements with Latin America and the European Union, according to a new report by the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC). The publication An assessment of the performance of CARICOM extra-regional trade agreements: an initial scoping exercise undertakes an assessment of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs…

ECLAC is assisting the subregion in identifying Caribbean SDGs

26 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them. ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society. The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and wil…

ECLAC is assisting the subregion in identifying Caribbean SDGs

26 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them. ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society. The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and will cont…

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