14 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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Press Release
(13 February 2013) As part of an official visit to Cuba from Monday 11 February to Friday 15, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has held various meetings with senior government authorities to assess, inter alia, the support that the Commission will provide in 2013 to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Cuba holds the pro tempore presidency.
The delegation accompanying the most senior representative of ECLAC consists in Raúl García-Buchaca, Director of the Programme Planning and Operati…
11 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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Climate change poses a serious threat to Central American societies due to its foreseeable and multiple impacts on the population and productive sectors. In fiscal terms it constitutes a contingent public liability that will affect the public finance of governments for generations to come. It is estimated that by 2030, Central America will still produce less than 0.5% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the planet, yet it is already one of the regions most vulnerable to the battering of climate change. The increase in atmospheric and sea temperatures, the reduction and instability of rain …
A new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyses eight cases of good practice in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used in the Latin American school system to contribute to inclusion and reduce social inequalities.
The document Las tecnologías digitales frente a los desafíos de una educación inclusiva en América Latina. Algunos casos de buenas prácticas (Digital technologies facing the challenges of an inclusive education in Latin America. Some cases of good practice) was drafted as part of the activities …
Una nueva publicación de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) analiza ocho casos de buenas prácticas en los que el uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC) en el sistema escolar latinoamericano puede ser un aporte a la inclusión y la reducción de las desigualdades sociales.
El libro Las tecnologías digitales frente a los desafíos de una educación inclusiva en América Latina. Algunos casos de buenas prácticas fue preparado en el marco de las actividades del Programa @LIS2 (Alianza para la Sociedad de la Información 2 -Diálogo político inclusiv…
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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The main objective of the present study was to determine the value of impacts due to climate change on the agricultural sector in the Caribbean under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A2 and B2 scenarios. More specifically, the study aimed to evaluate the direction and magnitude of the potential impacts of climate change on aggregate agricultural output and other key agricultural indicators. Further, the study forecast changes in income for agricultural output for key subsectors under the A2 and B2 scenarios, from 2011 to 2050. It analysed the …
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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Climate change poses special challenges for Caribbean decision makers related to the uncertainties inherent in future climate projections and the complex linkages between climate change, physical and biological systems,
and socioeconomic sectors. At present, however, the Caribbean subregion lacks the adaptive capacity needed
to address these challenges.
The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the coastal and
marine sector in the Caribbean until 2050. It aims both to provide Caribbean decision makers with cutting edge
information on the vulnerability to …
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
In the study, the Artificial Neural Network methodology was employed to model the relationship between climate change and energy demand. The viability of the actions proposed were assessed using cost benefit analyses based on models from the National Renewable Energy …
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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Climate change affects the fundamental bases of good human health, which are clean air, safe drinking
water, sufficient food, and secure shelter. Climate change is known to impact health through three
climate dimensions: extreme heat, natural disasters, and infections and diseases. The temporal and
spatial climatic changes that will affect the biology and ecology of vectors and intermediate hosts are
likely to increase the risks of disease transmission. The greatest effect of climate change on disease
transmission is likely to be observed at the extremes of the range of temperatures at which
t…
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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There are significant, fundamental changes taking place in global air and sea surface temperatures and sea levels. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that many of the warmest years on the instrumental record of global surface temperatures have occurred within the last twelve years, i.e. 1995-2006 (IPCC, 2007). The Caribbean tourism product is particularly vulnerable to climate change. On the demand side, mitigation measures in other countries – for example, measures to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels – could have implications for airfares…
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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El presente documento contiene una selección de las conferencias más destacadas dictadas en la sede de la CEPAL durante 2011 y 2012. Su difusión responde a la enorme trascendencia de los temas tratados y al enfoque particular que han sabido darles sus ilustres expositores. Reunidas en un solo volumen, estas conferencias magistrales dan cuenta de la necesidad de pensar el desarrollo desde una visión múltiple e integrada, como la ha venido haciendo la CEPAL a lo largo de los últimos sesenta años.…
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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The present publication has been prepared to study the potential of ICTs to promote socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable agricultural development. In Latin America, social inclusion and environmental sustainability in agriculture are especially relevant issues, in light of the great structural heterogeneity within the sector and, more recently, the stepped-up pressures on natural resources resulting from the boom in international commodity markets. Yet, the adoption of ICTs in agriculture cannot be expected by itself to reduce production asymmetries and enhance social inclusion. …
1 Feb 2013, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 04:22
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La acumulación de capital tiene una función insustituible en el crecimiento y, también, en impulsar el desarrollo humano a través de la creación de infraestructura para la salud y la educación. Por ello es natural que en América Latina las iniciativas fiscales para promover la formación de capital hayan ocupado siempre un papel destacado en la agenda de políticas. También lo es que se hayan realizado importantes esfuerzos analíticos para identificar los factores que deprimen o refuerzan el coeficiente de inversión y para diseñar políticas fiscales de promoción de la inversión. Como a lo largo…