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ECLAC meeting to discuss role of renewable energy in response to climate change

23 Nov 2018 | News

Caribbean energy experts are set to address the challenges that climate change poses to the energy sector. To do so, they will discuss the application of renewable energy policies at an upcoming meeting hosted by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The increasing impact of climate change across the Caribbean calls for a common and shared understanding among policy makers of the challenges posed to the energy sector, as well as for a coordinated disaster risk management approach and response strategy. Renewable e…

ECLAC publishes disaster assessment exercise guide

8 Nov 2018 | News

ECLAC has been a pioneer in the field of disaster assessment and in the development and dissemination of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology. Following several devastating hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters over the last few years in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC has carried out several successful DaLA missions. Now ECLAC has introduced a Disaster Assessment Methodology Exercise Guide, developed for the DaLA trainings. The guide consists of 12 practical exercises about how to estimate the effects on several sectors including electricity, educatio…

ECLAC ensures Caribbean countries are better equipped to deal with disasters

26 Oct 2018 | News

Three Caribbean countries will benefit from disaster training workshops over the last quarter of this year. Between October and December 2018, a team of experts from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, led by the Coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit, Dr. Omar Bello, will conduct Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) trainings in Anguilla, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos islands. The training courses are offered as a follow-up to the disaster assessment missions carried out last year to quan…

Multi-stakeholder Collaboration is Critical to Achieving Sustainable Urban Mobility

19 Oct 2018 | News

Meeting the challenge of sustainable urban mobility entails the collaboration of multiple actors from diverse sectors, both public and private, according to the experts who participated in a training seminar held today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The seminar on Coordination among multiple stakeholders for sustainable urban mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean – organized by ECLAC and the Sciences Po Urban School, with support from the government of France, and held in the framework of the Second Cities Co…

First ECLAC disaster training for Cuba targets environment experts

18 Oct 2018 | News

Environment experts, from Cuba are now better equipped to evaluate the impact of disasters using Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This following a DaLA training workshop conducted by a team from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean from 11 to 13 October 2018, in Havana. The course introduced the multisector approach of the DaLA Methodology to evaluate the impact of disaster using economic estimates of the damages, losses and additional costs and with a strong focus on the environmental…

Second Cities Conference Will Address Progress and Challenges to Safe, Affordable and Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Region

12 Oct 2018 | Announcement

Decision-makers and experts linked to sustainable urban development will analyze the progress and challenges related to safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility in the region during the Second Cities Conference, which will be held on October 16-19 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The latest edition of this regional conference seeks to improve integration between urban planning, management, financing, and mobility and transport systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve sustainable urban development,…

Authorities, Experts and Members of Civil Society Underscore the Importance of Promptly Ratifying the Escazú Agreement

27 Sep 2018 | News

Government authorities, international experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations and other institutions related to environmental protection, sustainable development and the defense of human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, met today at the Open Society Foundation’s main office in New York to debate the importance of States’ prompt ratification of the Escazú Agreement, which seeks to promote access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters. The treaty – which was opened to the signature of countries today in the framework of the…

ECLAC and DESA Strengthen Their Cooperation With a View to Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda and Tackling Global Economic Challenges

11 Sep 2018 | News

Liu Zhenmin, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General in charge of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), met today with the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and the directors of all the Commission’s divisions, in the framework of his visit to Chile. During the meeting, both UN entities reaffirmed the cooperation ties that unite them and renewed their pledge to continue working together to help the global organization’s member countries to advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Dev…

Access to Financing and Improved Fiscal Capacities Are Crucial to Achieving Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Cities

12 Jul 2018 | News

Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) – which seeks to achieve inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements ­– faces a series of challenges. Access to financing and improved fiscal capacities at the local level are crucial to attaining sustainable urban development, pointed out Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during a side event to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) being held in New York. In the meeting on “Effective Implementation, Monitoring and Financing of SDG11 - reinforcing crucia…

Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters Strengthens Democracy and Promotes Growth with Equality and Sustainability

11 Jul 2018 | News

The Regional Agreement on access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters (Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration of 1992) – adopted in Escazu, Costa Rica on March 4, 2018 – strengthens environmental democracy and represents a crucial step toward the construction of societies with economic growth based on sustainable development and equality, said Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Olga Algayerova, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), during an eve…

Timely Disaster Training for Tobago Officials

25 Jun 2018 | News

With the “rainy” season in Trinidad and Tobago already beginning, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean took its Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology training to Tobago from 23-25 May 2018. Some of the areas that were covered over the three days included an introduction and basic concepts of the Disaster Assessment Methodology, the role of planning in disaster risk management and its impact on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how the population can be affected, and how areas such …

Caribbean experts discuss energy efficiency at ECLAC meeting

21 Jun 2018 | News

Energy experts from Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago discussed their experiences in gathering and analysing EE, as well as the challenges and lessons learnt in gathering EE data, in the context of the final training workshop of a project focused on the Development of a Database of Energy Efficiency Indicators (BIEE), which was hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The training, which was the last in a series of workshops held at intervals over the last 12 months, facilitated a review of the first set of coun…

Foreign Ministers and UN Authorities Defend Multilateralism as a Key Tool for Sustainable Development with Equality

11 May 2018 | News

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance from seven countries of the region and United Nations high authorities offered a fervent defense of multilateralism today as the principal and only tool for advancing toward fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to arrive at development that puts equality front and center. This was in the context of ECLAC’s thirty-seventh session that concludes today in Havana, Cuba. In a high-level dialogue with special participation by Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary General, foreign ministers from Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador…

How to Follow the ECLAC Session in Cuba

4 May 2018 | News

From May 7 to 11, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold in Havana, Cuba its thirty-seventh session, the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting, whose mandate is to promote the economic, social and environmenal development of the region. The event will bring together representatives of ECLAC’s 46 member countries and 13 associate members and will be attended by more than 25 ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from more than 20 countries’ departments of Foreign Affairs, Energy, Mining, Public Works, the En…

ECLAC Will Hold its 37⁰ Session from May 7 to 11

3 May 2018 | Announcement

From May 7 to 11, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold in Havana, Cuba, its thirty-seventh session, the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting, which will be attended by more than 25 ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from more than 20 countries of the region. The event, which will take place at the Palacio de Convenciones in Havana, will bring together representatives of ECLAC’s 46 member countries and 13 associate members. It will be inaugurated on Tuesday, May 8 at 9 a.m. local time, by Antóni…

ECLAC Will Present its New Development Proposal to Countries of the Region in Cuba

27 Apr 2018 | Announcement

From May 7 to 11, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold in Havana, Cuba its thirty-seventh session, the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting, at which it will deliver its new development proposal for all the countries of the region. The event, which will take place at the Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, will bring together representatives of ECLAC’s 46 member countries and 13 associate members and will be attended by more than 25 ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from more than 20 countries’ de…

United Nations Course on International Law Begins its Second Session at ECLAC

23 Apr 2018 | News

For the second straight year, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host the United Nations Regional Course on International Law for Latin America and the Caribbean, an activity that will convene 25 lawyers from 21 countries in the region at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The course, which will last for four weeks, is organized by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (which is headquartered in New York), in collaboration with Chile’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and ECLAC. Its objective is to enable qualified professionals, particularly…

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are Called On to Ratify the First Regional Agreement on Environmental Matters

18 Apr 2018 | News

The first binding regional agreement to protect the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters (Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development), adopted on March 4 in Costa Rica, is a historic milestone for the region. For that reason, authorities and experts gathered today at ECLAC called on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to sign and ratify it this year so that it enters into force as soon as possible. During the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sus…

United Nations Publishes Authentic Text of First Regional Environmental Agreement of Latin America and the Caribbean

9 Apr 2018 | News

The Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs published today on its web site the certified true copies of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted March 4, 2018 in Escazú, Costa Rica, during the ninth meeting of the agreement’s negotiating committee. In addition to being the first regional environmental agreement, this unprecedented legal instrument is the only treaty to come out of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and the first in the world to contain speci…

New Publication Examines Nine Theses on Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

27 Mar 2018 | News

Meeting the challenge of preserving a global public asset like the climate will require deep structural transformation from the current development style toward more sustainable development. This calls for a fair and inclusive international agreement that recognizes shared but differentiated responsibilities. This is one of the perspectives set forth in the publication The Economy of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: a graphic vision, produced in the framework of the EUROCLIMA program, financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary …

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