Trinidad and Tobago’s Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the People, Social Development and Family Services, Dr. Natalie Chaitan-Maharaj, says, “Statistics can’t just remain in reports but must translate into action that changes lives.” The Parliamentary Secretary was speaking at ECLAC’s Cal...

A decade into the 2030 Agenda, progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is uneven. In Latin America and the Caribbean, only 23% of targets are on track for 2030. The 2025 HLPF brought governments and stakeholders together to accelerate action and ensure no one is left behind.

With only 17 per cent of SDG targets being on track to be achieved by 2030 globally, now is the time to invest in sustainable development on an unprecedented scale.

The recently adopted Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (“Escazú Agreement”) was highlighted in two events during the 24th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl...

This was one of the statements made by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at the opening of a workshop on sustainable development and big data that takes place today in Santiago, Chile.