18 January 2024 | Briefing note
The Energy Big Push 2.0 presents unprecedented data on energy innovation, develops a digital platform prototype to promote university-business interaction on innovation in the energy sector, and holds a series of events and debates on innovation and the energy transition in Brazil.
16 January 2024 | Briefing note
5 December 2023 | Briefing note
The UN stand’s main topic was the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Human Rights Charter, the 75 years since ECLAC’s founding, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
10 de November de 2023 | Briefing note
Dados inéditos sobre patentes em energias sustentáveis no Brasil passam a integrar a inova-e, plataforma que apresenta indicadores sobre inovação em energia no país. Desenvolvido pelo CGEE e pela EPE e com apoio da CEPAL e da GIZ, por meio do Programa EUROCLIMA+, o novo módulo de patentes verdes da plataforma inova-e já se encontra disponível.
28 September 2023 | Briefing note
Introducing the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition: For better environmental governance and transparency
27 September 2023 | Briefing note
Parliamentarians from Latin America and the Caribbean launched, on September 20th, the Virtual Platform and the Legislative Data Monitor of the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC)
20 September 2023 | Briefing note
ECLAC, the MDIC and INPI, with European Union support through the Euroclima+ program, held an event on August 24 to launch a study on criteria for the patentability of biotechnology.
20 September 2023 | Briefing note
A workshop on Socioeconomic and Ecological Evaluation for public investment projects with the incorporation of elements of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation to Climate Change from the RIDASICC project began in Guatemala.
12 September 2023 | Briefing note
Actions to promote innovation in green technologies led to 96 connections (“matches”) between providers and seekers of these technologies in Latin American and European countries.
9 August 2023 | Briefing note
Latin American and Caribbean international bond activity ended the first half of 2023 on a strong note.
14 November 2022 | Briefing note
In a side event at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), held in a hybrid format (face-to-face in Sharm El Sheikh and virtual through a digital platform) on November 10, more of ten parliamentary leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries, participants in the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC) signed a joint statement on climate financing.
9 June 2022 | Briefing note
The webinar “Production Capacity of Electric Buses in Latin America,” held by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on June 9, 2022, brought together experts and leaders from Latin America’s automotive industry to discuss the challenges, opportunities and trends for the sustainable urban mobility sector and the possibilities for integration in the production chain.
8 June 2022 | Briefing note
Latin American and Caribbean issuance in international debt markets broke an all-time annual record in 2021, reaching US$ 149 billion. It slowed considerably in the first four months of 2022, however: at US$ 38 billion, it was 42% lower than in the same period in 2021.
20 de May de 2022 | Briefing note
A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) e a Plataforma Nacional de Mobilidade Elétrica (PNME) coorganizaram, no dia 20 de maio, encontro estratégico de tomadores de decisões e líderes do poder público, da indústria, da área de financiamento e da sociedade civil para discutir soluções para a eletromobilidade dos ônibus no Brasil.
5 May 2022 | Briefing note
The Executive Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Treasury or Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (SECOSEFIN), officials from the member countries of the Council of Ministers of Treasury or Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN/SICA) and from the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico met virtually on May 5 of this year to review a proposal to extend the implementation of the project “Disaster risk reduction and sustainable and inclusive adaptation to climate change in public investment” (RIDASICC) to 2023 and a proposal to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), requesting the extension.
19 de April de 2022 | Briefing note
O Escritório no Brasil da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) realizou o webinar “Tendências da mobilidade no Brasil e América Latina” no dia 19 de abril de 2022, no qual especialistas em mobilidade do Brasil e da região discutiram as tendências da mobilidade urbana.
14 de March de 2022 | Briefing note
Durante quatro dias, de 14 a 17 de março, mais de 200 examinadores de patentes de dezessete países da América Latina e do Caribe participaram de uma capacitação sobre tecnologias verdes, de forma remota.
9 de September de 2021 | Briefing note
O Escritório da CEPAL no Brasil, o DIEESE e a FES-Brasil, realizaram no dia 9 de setembro evento de lançamento do relatório “O Big Push para a Sustentabilidade e a dinâmica do emprego, trabalho e renda: o trabalho no contexto da transformação social e ecológica da economia brasileira”.
27 de August de 2021 | Briefing note
Em seminário regional de alto nível, realizado no dia 27 de agosto de forma virtual, líderes e parlamentares de diversos países latino-americanos apresentaram suas perspectivas sobre financiamento da ação climática e precificação de carbono rumo à COP26.
14 July 2021 | Briefing note
Maintaining our community of ECLAC staff and library users during the COVID-19 pandemic