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New Document by ECLAC Analyzes the Values of the Social Cost of Carbon for the Development of Public Policies on Climate Change in the Region

17 June 2019 | News

Identifying and establishing a social cost of carbon (SCC) is particularly useful for developing public policies on climate change and sustainable development in the region, a new document produced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates. The report entitled The Social Cost of Carbon: An Aggregate View from Latin America (in Spanish only) – by authors José Eduardo Alatorre, Karina Caballero, Jimy Ferrer and Luis Miguel Galindo –analyzes and narrows down the wide variety of studies and results on SCC to identify their regular patterns and reduce the…

Experts Highlight Contribution of International Trade to Fight Climate Change and for Sustainable Development

15 December 2015 | News

Experts from 15 Latin American, the Caribbean and European countries meet at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile to analyze the contribution of international trade to fight climate change in the region, just two days after the end of the negotiations at the 21 Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris. At the VII International ECLAC Environmental Footprint Seminar: Environmental Standards in the International Trade, organized by this United Nations regional commissio…

Measuring and Reducing Carbon Footprints Would Allow Companies to Improve Their Insertion in Global Trade

11 December 2014 | News

Latin American and Caribbean companies could improve their insertion in global trade if they measure their carbon footprints and took action to reduce them in their productive processes, ECLAC representatives said this Thursday, December 11, during a side event of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which is being held in Lima, Peru. At the meeting, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the results of its project on carbon footprint and food exports in the region, in which eight countr…

ECLAC Will Present Its Vision on Climate Change Challenges in the Region at the COP20 in Lima

4 December 2014 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present two reports and participate in numerous side events during the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which will be held in Lima, Peru, until December 12. In the Peruvian capital, the Commission will launch an update of its study The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing a broad overview of the main impacts that are expected as well as subregional and national figures. The Commission, along with Peru’s…

ECLAC Research Contributes to Knowledge on Climate Change in the Region

1 September 2014 | News

Over the last decade, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has developed several lines of research regarding climate change. One that stands out is a study of the economic and socioeconomic impacts of this phenomenon and its effects on the region's coastline. "ECLAC is working very in depth on the issue of climate change and also on its link to strategic sectors of the region's economy. Climate change sometimes seems distant to us, but it is already generating direct effects on many countries," Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, said recently. On Septem…

Carbon Footprint - Source of Competitive Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean

2 July 2013 | News

The carbon footprint is not only a possible threat to the international trade of Latin America and the Caribbean. It can also be a source of competitive opportunities. This is according to the preliminary results of the carbon footprint and exports project that the ECLAC Division of International Trade and Integration has been carrying out since 2012 with the support of the United Nations Development Account. For business owners in countries that are directly or indirectly involved in the project (Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay), what is…

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