Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the Thirty-eighth session of ECLAC

Energy Big Push: accelerating clean energy innovation in Brazil

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), the Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Management (CGEE), the Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) will host the webinar “Energy Big Push: accelerating clean energy innovation in Brazil” on 23 October 2020, from 10am to 12pm in Brasilia (GMT-3). Since early-2019, the Energy Big Push (EBP) Brazil has been a collaborative project aiming to support investments in innovation for a sustainable energy transition in the country. Led by CGEE, EPE, ECLAC/CEPAL an…

Fourth Regional-Global Trade in Value Added (TiVA) initiatives workshop.

Under virtual modality, and under the leadership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the fourth working meeting of the different value-added trade initiatives (TIVA) was held as a follow-up to the development of the different initiatives. Delegates from different international organizations participated including the World Trade Organization, the United States Department of Commerce, the European Commission's Joint Research Center (EC-JRC), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), as well as the United Nations Regional Commissions for Africa (UNECA), Asia Pacific (ESC…

Participation of ECLAC in the “6th meeting of the Task Force on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus”

ECLAC participated in the “Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus”, within the framework of the Water Convention, to share the advances in the adoption of the Nexus approach in policies and programs of the Latin America and the Caribbean region and to highlight the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the management of bodies of water, which continues to be a pending challenge in the region.…

Seminar on National Accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2020: Economic Statistics for the Future

On this occasion, a space has been designated for the presentation of the integrated economic statistics systems of the region and a session to review the actions of the national accounts offices in the context of the COVID19 pandemic.…

13 Oct 2020 - New Cycle of Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) 2021

This community of practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) in particular. It also aims to provide a regular space for countries to communicate with regards to VNRs preparations. PARTICIPANTS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BELIZE, JAMAICA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SESSION GOALS The goal of this session was to welcome new Caribbean countries presenting their VNRs at the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2021 (Antig…

Virtual Forum "Challenges for planning and monitoring the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean"

ECLAC, in cooperation with GIZ, presented the case of Bolivia on indicators and evidence-based policies under the Nexus approach.…

Sixth Nexus Virtual Forum. Diagnosis and proposal to promote irrigation in Central America under the Nexus approach

Irrigation analysis in rural territories of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Southern Mexico under the Nexus approach.…

Workshop on Leaving No One Behind in the Caribbean: Building resilience through universal social protection

The workshop is being jointly organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and Social Development Division, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), leveraging the partners’ respective technical expertise. The overarching objective of the Subregional Workshop is to promote universal and comprehensive social protection systems in the Caribbean.…

Global Input-Output Tables: Tools for the analysis of the integration of Latin America with the world

In order to complete the existing multiregional input-output (MRIO) tables in Latin American and Asia Pacific, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), together with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), assembled Global Input-Output Tables. These include input-output tables previously developed by those institutions: The MRIO by the Asian Development Bank, and the South American I-O Table for 2005, as well as the input-output tables for Latin America and the Caribbean set up for the years 2011 and …

Course: Current challenges of the port system for the countries of the Greater Caribbean

The course is given by the Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, Regional Commission of the United Nations). It addresses the main current trends and future prospects of ports with a strategic, regional and global vision of the evolution of the port and maritime industry. The concepts in port management have evolved along with the globalization and evolution of markets, regional and world industry, technological changes, new requirements for sustainability, collaboration and efficiency throughout the chain, making new strategies nec…

Closing of the period for signature of the Escazú Agreement

The period for signature of the Escazú Agreement will close on 26 September 2020, pursuant to article 21 of the treaty.…

CORPYME: Hacia una infraestructura digital para promover la internacionalización de las pymes

Background Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) represent just 6% of the region's exports, yet they constitute 99% of the number of formal businesses and two thirds of employment. This partly reflects the low productivity of these companies and their difficulty in overcoming different obstacles to export, beyond the challenge of accessing credit. Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) are the main responsible for supporting SMEs in their internationalization process. To do this, they offer various services and carry out different activities to help e…

Second Jamaica GIS user virtual Conference: "Geospatial technology: Shaping our future"

The Ministry of Economic Growth & Job Creation (MEGJC) through the National Spatial Data Management Branch (NSDMB) and Land Information Council of Jamaica (LICJ) will be hosting the 2nd Jamaica GIS User Conference on September 23-24, 2020 virtually in Kingston, Jamaica. The theme of the conference is “Geospatial Technology: Shaping Our Future” and will cover topics such as Urban Planning, Climate Change, Resource Management, and Crime Management with emphasis on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…

Twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countries.…

Seventh Session of UN-GGIM: Americas

The Seventh Session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UNGGIM: Americas) was held virtually from 10 to 11 September 2020.…

Sixth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

This year the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) takes stock of the progress so far made in persuading the international community to extend the financial support needed by Member States.…

AMERIGEO Week 2020

The Regional Committee on Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM Americas) is a Regional Committee of the United Nations Group of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) with responsibility for determining relevant regional issues for the management of geospatial information, and based on the exchange of knowledge, experiences and technologies by the Member States, takes the necessary measures to maximize the economic, social and environmental benefits derived from its use.…

The role of data to highlight gender bias in the pandemic. A perspective from the labor market and the economic autonomy of women

This is a side-event of Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Organized by DANE of Colombia.…

The importance of the economic census in the countries of Latin America, regarding the publication of the most recent economic census carried out in Mexico

This is a side-event of Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Organized by INEGI of Mexico.…