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Opening of the Regional Water Week 2025

6 Oct 2025 | Briefing note

The 2025 Regional Water Week was inaugurated on Monday, October 6, in the Raúl Prebisch Room at ECLAC (Santiago, Chile). The ceremony was moderated by Ms. Silvia Saravia Matus, Economic Affairs Officer in charge of Water Resources at ECLAC’s Natural Resources Division, and included remarks by Mr. Rodrigo Sanhueza Bravo, Director General of Water Resources at the Ministry of Public Works of Chile, and Mr. Martín Abeles, Director of ECLAC’s Natural Resources Division. A special video message from Ms. Meike van Ginneken, Water Envoy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was also shown.…

T&T Planning Minister: Building Ocean Economy & Protecting Marine Ecosystems Can Lead to Sustainable Development

1 Oct 2025 | Briefing note

Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development, Kennedy Swaratsingh, says developing the national and regional blue economy can contribute to a more robust and diverse economy, create jobs, and build the country and region’s capacity in ocean affairs. Minister Swaratsingh was speaking at the opening of the conference Ocean-Based Climate Action in Support of Blue Economy Advancement in Trinidad and Tobago and the Wider Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago.…

ECLAC presents the progress of Latin America and the Caribbean in gender statistics at the United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics meeting

30 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

During the 19th meeting of the Group, held on 30 September 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia, the session “Looking back and looking forward: a regional lens to the evolution of gender statistics at Beijing+30 and beyond” brought together the five United Nations Regional Commissions to share advances, challenges, and priorities in the production, analysis, and use of gender statistics, in the framework of the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.…

Message of condolence to the Government and people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas

28 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

It is with profound sadness that the Escazú Agreement Secretariat learned of the early passing of the Honourable Vaughn Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of the Bahamas and a dear friend of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In this bitter hour, we convey our deepest condolences and solidarity to his family and loved ones and to the Government and people of the Bahamas, whom he proudly served. Minister Miller will remain a source of inspiration for us all as we seek to achieve a more sustainable, inclusive and productive region, with en…

Interinstitutional Workshop on a Pilot Project for Methane Utilization in Small-Capacity WWTPs in Colombia

26 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

On September 26, 2025, an Interinstitutional Workshop was held in Bogotá with sectoral entities from the housing, energy and environment sectors and from the national planning level of Colombia, coordinated by the Colombian Commission for the Regulation of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation (CRA) and ECLAC, in which the consolidated results of the initial evaluation of the technical and financial feasibility of using methane in 56 lower-capacity WWTPs (Wastewater Treatment Plants) located in different regions of the country were disseminated to these entities. The main objectives of the Works…

Economic impacts of aging societies

26 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing one of the most rapid demographic transitions in the world, which is profoundly transforming their economic and social structures.…

For Climate Finance, Caribbean Countries Must Link Climate Finance with Sustainable Development

25 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

Caribbean countries must be able to make the connection between climate finance and sustainable development to receive much-needed funding for climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation. That is the view of ECLAC Caribbean consultant Cathal Healy-Singh, on how Caribbean SIDS (Small Island Developing States) can tackle what has emerged as one of their main development challenges.…

Open Justice Conference makes commitment on open environmental justice on the basis of the Escazú Agreement

1 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

The International Conference on Open Justice, organized by the Judiciary of the Dominican Republic and the International Network on Open Justice with the support of ECLAC was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 27 and 28 August 2025. More than 500 participants from Judiciaries and other sectors from 21 countries took part in the event. The Conference adopted the Santo Domingo Declaration to boost democracy and transparency in the judicial sector through ten commitments, one of them being advancing towards an open environmental justice on the basis of the Escazú Agreement. …

New methodologies and sources of information for the production of official statistics in the region

26 Aug 2025 | Briefing note

At the recent Cetic.br annual meeting, held in São Paulo, experts from around the world shared experiences on the use of emerging data sources for the production of official statistics. ECLAC's Statistics Division contributed its regional expertise in data integration, interoperability, and governance, connecting these advances with sustainable development priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

Schedule Your Visit to the Hernán Santa Cruz Library

26 Aug 2025 | Briefing note

The Hernán Santa Cruz Library, located at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, offers you a unique collection of resources on the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean. To access this research space, please schedule your visit online.…

ECLAC highlights regional advances in geospatial and statistical information before the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management

26 Aug 2025 | Briefing note

At United Nations Headquarters, ECLAC presented concrete progress in the implementation of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) and the Global Geospatial Statistical Framework (GSGF) in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the value of geospatial and statistical information in guiding public policies and achieving the SDGs.…

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