The Hummingbird Vol.5 No.12

ECLAC meeting to discuss role of renewable energy in response to climate change

Caribbean energy experts are set to address the challenges that climate change poses to the energy sector. To do so, they will discuss the application of renewable energy policies at an upcoming meeting hosted by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The increasing impact of climate change across the Caribbean calls for a common and shared understanding among policy makers of the challenges posed to the energy sector, as well as for a coordinated disaster risk management approach and response strategy. Renewable e…

CEPAL participó en encuentro regional de EUROCLIMA+ en Argentina

Desde el 8 al 10 de octubre se celebró en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la reunión anual del programa EUROCLIMA+ de la Unión Europea para promover el desarrollo sostenible y resiliente al cambio climático en 18 países de América Latina, el cual es implementado coordinadamente por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Comisión Europea y seis agencias internacionales de cooperación. El encuentro se enfocó en revisar el avance de los proyectos financiados por el programa y analizar las acciones que se están ejecutando en la región para el cumplimento de los compromisos adqu…

Investing in the Caribbean Future

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Caribbean experts discuss energy efficiency at ECLAC meeting

Energy experts from Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago discussed their experiences in gathering and analysing EE, as well as the challenges and lessons learnt in gathering EE data, in the context of the final training workshop of a project focused on the Development of a Database of Energy Efficiency Indicators (BIEE), which was hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The training, which was the last in a series of workshops held at intervals over the last 12 months, facilitated a review of the first set of coun…

To Achieve Sustainable Development, It is Necessary to Equalize to Grow and Grow to Equalize: Alicia Bárcena, at Latin America and the Caribbean week in France and at the OECD Forum

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, called for equalizing to grow and growing to equalize with the aim of moving toward a new, more inclusive and sustainable development model, and for forging renewed social compacts that enable changing current growth and production patterns and fighting growing inequalities in the region, in remarks she made at various high-level events dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean that are taking place this week in Paris. The senior United Nations official is in France to participate in the 10th International Economic Forum on Latin America and the …

Para lograr un desarrollo sostenible se requiere igualar para crecer y crecer para igualar: Alicia Bárcena, en la semana de América Latina y el Caribe en Francia y en el Foro OCDE

La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, llamó a igualar para crecer y crecer para igualar con el fin de avanzar hacia un nuevo estilo de desarrollo más inclusivo y sostenible, y a la construcción de renovados pactos sociales que permitan cambiar los actuales patrones de crecimiento y producción, y combatir las crecientes desigualdades en la región, durante varios eventos de alto nivel dedicados a América Latina y el Caribe que se realizan esta semana en París. La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas se encuentra en Francia para participar en el 10⁰ Foro Económico Internacional …

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