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18 March 2021 | Press Release

New Report Analyzes the Socioeconomic Repercussions of COVID-19 in the Caribbean and the Urgency of Moving Towards a Systemic Approach to Disaster Risk
In a special joint report, ECLAC and UNDRR address challenges, opportunities and recommendations for moving towards a risk-informed recovery and development model in the Caribbean.
16 March 2021 | Press Release

Countries of the Region Stress the Urgency of Equitable Vaccination and a Transformative Recovery to Build a Better World in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda
The fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development was inaugurated today by high-level authorities who called urgently for reinvigorating the regional response to the pandemic.
19 November 2020 | Press Release

To Change the Development Pattern, ECLAC Calls for Forging New Compacts and Coalitions with Transformative Leaderships, at a Seminar Organized by the Vatican
The Executive Secretary of the United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a webinar entitled “Latin America: Church, Pope Francis and pandemic-related scenarios,” organized by the papal headquarters.
18 June 2020 | Press Release

To Confront the Climate Change Emergency and Rethink the Post-COVID Recovery, We Must Urgently Move Towards a New, More Sustainable and Egalitarian Development Pattern
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented a new book today that exhaustively reviews the effects of climate change in the region and the policies addressing it.
31 January 2020 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Approved the Santiago Commitment, Which Seeks to Accelerate Efforts to Fulfill the Regional Gender Agenda
The XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by ECLAC with support from UN Women, concluded today in Chile.
17 May 2019 | Press Release

Caribbean Governments Focus on Repositioning Countries Towards Achieving Sustainable Development
The 19th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
11 May 2018 | Press Release

ECLAC Renews its Calling to Serve as a Pertinent and Effective Instrument for Regional Development
Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the regional commission, and Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, closed the thirty-seventh session of ECLAC held in Havana, Cuba.
29 May 2015 | Press Release

International Context Imposes New Challenges on Relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC will contribute a new document to the next EU-CELAC summit, which will be held in Brussels on June 10-11.
10 December 2014 | Press Release

Climate Change in Peru Seen Affecting the Fishing, High Andes’ Livestock and Agricultural Sectors the Most
By the year 2100, the economic losses related to this phenomenon could range between 11.4% and 15.4% of national GDP.
10 December 2014 | Press Release

Climate Change Impacts Already Being Felt Will Intensify in the Future
ECLAC offers a diagnosis and numerous policy recommendations in a new report that estimates this phenomenon’s economic costs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
9 de May de 2014 | Press Release

Altas autoridades de la región resaltan contribución de propuestas de la CEPAL para la agenda post-2015
Ministros de Perú, Colombia, El Salvador, México y Cuba y el vicecanciller de Jamaica participan en un diálogo en el marco de la reunión que el organismo de Naciones Unidas celebra en Lima.
12 September 2011 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean Conclude the Regional Meeting Preparatory to Rio+20
Countries will take the recommendations to the world conference to be held in Brazil in 2012.
12 September 2011 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Seek a Regional Consensus On Sustainable Development
Agencies of the United Nations presented a document proposing a strategy for the conference which will take place in Brazil in 2012.
22 December 2010 | Press Release

Climate Change Is Expected to Cost Latin American Countries at Least 1% of Annual GDP
In Cancún, ECLAC presented a report on the potential economic costs of climate change in the region by the end of the century if global mitigation and adaptive actions are not taken.
8 December 2010 | Press Release

ECLAC Will Present New Data on the Impact of Climate Change on the Region's Economies
The study, which will be launched in Cancún on 8 December, outlines the economic consequences of global warming measured in GDP percentages in different potential scenarios of higher temperatures.
10 November 2010 | Press Release

Experts to Assess Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture in the Region
The phenomenon impacts the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean, most of which lives in conditions of poverty.
9 May 2002 | Press Release

Enormous Potential for Solving Environmental Problems

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