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World Health Day

7 April 2016 | Briefing note

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Grenada joins the Principle 10 regional process

6 April 2016 | Briefing note

During the third meeting of the negotiating committee of the regional agreement on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 5-8 April 2016, Grenada signed on to the Declaration on the application of Principle 10.…

JAMAICA: Redatam workshop on database creation and web application development for dissemination of population and housing census data

31 March 2016 | Briefing note

Under the cooperation framework with the subregional office of ECLAC in the Caribbean along with the Caribbean Development Bank and UNFPA subregional office for the Caribbean, a Redatam workshop was organized starting Monday 4th until Friday April 15th in Kingston, Jamaica. Thirteen experts from the national statistics office of Jamaica will participate plus two representatives from the Cayman Islands and two other representatives from St. Kitts and Nevis.…

Ministers of the Environment of the region reaffirm essential nature of Principle 10

31 March 2016 | Briefing note

Gathered in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) from 28 to 31 March 2016, on the occasion of the XX Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Ministers and Delegation Leaders reaffirmed that it is essential to promote the complete implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, in line with the reality and national legislation, for which it becomes fundamental the strengthening of international cooperation and the creation of capacity in the countries of the region.…

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment highlights process on Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean in interactive dialogue with Human Rights Council

2 March 2016 | Briefing note

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, John H. Knox, participated in an interactive dialogue in the framework of the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on 2 March.…

Work Progresses in the Remodelling of the ECLAC Library

2 February 2016 | Briefing note

ECLAC's Buildings Management Unit is continuing with the successful remodeling of the Hernán Santa Cruz Library. This renewal seeks to convert the facilities into a comfortable, warm, modern space that invites users to leverage valuable information resources and the published heritage of the organziation .…

Third International Course "Territory as an educational space" highlighted the 2030 Agenda and access rights in environmental matters

1 February 2016 | Briefing note

The technical secretariat of the Principle 10 regional process participated in the Third International Course "Territory as an educational space", held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago between 11 and 29 January 2016, where it delivered a presentation on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and access rights in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

Big vessels are here, the time left to act is shrinking

12 January 2016 | Briefing note

In 2011, when we presented Sanchez and Perrotti: “Looking into the Future: Big Full Containerships and their Arrival to South American Ports”1 at the IAME Annual Conference, the time span of the appearance of vessels averaging 13,000 TEU in South America was projected to be between 2016 and 2020. The great news was that on December 18, 2015, TCBuen, the Colombian terminal belonging to the Port of Buenaventura, received the largest container vessel ever to have operated in South America: the Maersk Edinburgh. Part of the AC2 service, this vessel is intended to conn…

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