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

1 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:00 - 00:55 | 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.…

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

25 Sep 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | 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.…

ECLAC Welcomes New Director for Caribbean Office

23 Jun 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, has announced the appointment of Miosotis Rivas Peña as the new director of the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean.…

Twenty-Two Caribbean Ministers to Gather in T&T for Discussions on Sustainable Development

6 Sep 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

Ministers and policy makers from twenty-two countries across the Caribbean will gather in Trinidad and Tobago next week to discuss and forge a path for transforming and building inclusive and sustainable Caribbean development at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s meetings of the Caribbean Development Roundtable and Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.…

Trinidad and Tobago to Chair UN Development Meetings for Countries of the Caribbean

6 Sep 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles-Robinson is set to chair the 30th meeting of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), at which ministers and other high-level representatives from over 20 Caribbean member countries, along with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Jose Manuel Salazar Xirinachs, will gather to discuss the sustainable development of the subregion.…

UN General Assembly President Francis Brings Home the Message that We Need to Get Serious About Sustainability

5 Aug 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The 78th President of the United Nations General Assembly, Dennis Francis is back in his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago as his term comes to an end… and he’s expressing concern that if the world doesn’t get serious about sustainable development, that lifestyles on his islands, and others around the world could become disturbingly different.…

Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee acknowledges relevance of Escazú Agreement for Caribbean SIDS

23 Oct 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The 29th session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), held on 14 October in Paramaribo, Suriname, adopted a resolution on the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement). In the same, participating Caribbean States acknowledged the relevance of the Escazú Agreement in promoting sustainable development in the Caribbean small island developing States, through its support for implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the SIDS Accelerated M…

OECS Council of Ministers on Environmental Sustainability highlights Escazú Agreement

2 Jun 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The ninth meeting of the OECS Council of Ministers on Environmental Sustainability took place in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 31 May to 1 June 2022 under the theme “Shifting to more Integrated Approaches for Sustainability, Resilience and Prosperity in OECS SIDS.” Ministers and representatives of OECS Member States focused on bridging silos across priority environmental themes and making linkages with key economic and social pillars for designing and accelerating sustainable policies and solutions. In its capacity as Secretariat to the Escazú Agreement, ECLAC took part in the Minis…

CARIBBEAN: Online regional training workshop on measuring indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through the use of census data with REDATAM and mapping with QGis.

4 Jan 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

During the week of November 8th to 15th, for six days, a virtual workshop was held for the Caribbean countries. This was organized jointly by CELADE-Population Division of UN ECLAC and the Regional Office of UN ECLAC for the Caribbean. There were 33 participants from the National Statistical Offices of Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Bahamas, Dominica, Suriname, Turks & Caicos, Grenada, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Vincent & Grenadines and Montserrat.…

Experts and government representatives examined unpaid care work in the Caribbean during a side event at the 61st Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

5 Oct 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The side event entitled “The burden of unpaid care work on Caribbean women in the time of COVID-19”, which took place within the context of the 61st Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean focused on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Caribbean women with particular focus on the increasing burden of unpaid care work. It also showcased experiences and progress in the development of time use measurements in the subregion. The event was moderated by Malaka Parker and included interventions from ECLAC’s subregional headquarte…

I am a Youth of a Small Island - International Competition

24 Jun 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The “I am a Youth of a Small Island” international competition is being organised by the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and other UN Partners to mark the mid-term review of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway).…

ECLAC takes part in the 6th Council of Ministers on Environmental Sustainability of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

22 May 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

The 6th Council of Ministers of Environmental Sustainability of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), was held in Fort-de-France, Martinique, between 15 and 17 May 2019, under the theme “Towards a Sustainable Caribbean Society: Reinforcing Strategic and Durable Partnerships for Advancing Sustainable Development in the Eastern Caribbean.”…

Caribbean economies

4 Apr 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | Briefing note

Briefing note by ECLAC Caribbean Chief, Diane Quarless…

Grenada joins the Principle 10 regional process

6 Apr 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 00:55 | 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.…

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