Annotated provisional agenda. Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Guide for the implementation of a quality assurance framework for statistical processes and outputs

This document is intended as a guide to the adoption, adaptation and application in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics. It draws on the Manual and its diagnostic tools via an unofficial Spanish translation produced by the national statistical offices of Colombia and Mexico. It also draws on discussions of those inputs held with the countries of the region to obtain recommendations for adapting the Manual to the Latin American and Caribbean context.…

Provisional agenda. Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 5

Report of the Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the activities of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

Proposal for the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation activities 2022-2023 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the outcomes of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities 2020-2021 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Forest loss in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990 to 2020: The statistical evidence

Forests play an important role as providers of sustenance and livelihoods for people living in forested areas and are the largest repository of terrestrial biological diversity on the planet. They play a key part in climate change mitigation and adaptation because of their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and fix it in the form of biomass. According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FAO), the total area of forest in the world is 4.06 billion hectares, or 31% of the planet’s land surface. More than half the world’s forest area is in just five countries, with one country in …

Second report on the implementation of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities, 2020-2021, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the Activities of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual meeting)

Effects of the quarantines and activity restrictions related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on air quality in Latin America's cities

Air pollution represents a major environmental health hazard. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is responsible for 300,000 deaths every year in the Americas, and 9 in every 10 people are breathing polluted air at this very moment. The air pollutants that are most harmful to human and environmental health are coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The concentrations of these pollutants in city air are then determined by the environmental conditions prevailing in each case. As multiple factors are …

Provisional agenda. Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual meeting)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the new global and regional context: Scenarios and projections in the current crisis

The world is facing a humanitarian and health crisis without precedent in the last century. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has battered economies already weakened by slow growth and mounting inequality. As uncertainty grows over the extent of the pandemic, economies and societies are shutting down and coming to a standstill. The short- and even medium-term impacts may be devastating. The region of Latin America and the Caribbean faces this crisis from a situation of economic growth that is insufficient to reduce poverty and increase employment at the pace needed by its societies. …