PrefaceIn our first paper, UN-Energy focused on The Energy Challenge for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We pointed out that available energy services fail to meet the needs of the world's poor, with 2.4 billion people relying on traditional biomass for their energy needs and 1.6 billion not having any access to electricity. The basic commitments to poor people cannot be met without a far more focused approach to energy services.At the same time, awareness has grown across the world of the impact of human energy consumption on our environment, and specifically on o…
PrefacioEn nuestro primer documento, ONUEnergía se centró en El desafío de la Energía para Alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio . Señalamos que los servicios energéticos disponibles no han logrado satisfacer las necesidades de los más pobres del mundo, con 2.400 millones de personas que recurren a la biomasa tradicional para sus necesidades energéticas, y 1.600 millones sin acceso alguno a la electricidad. Los compromisos básicos para la gente pobre no se pueden alcanzar sin un enfoque mucho más centrado hacia los servicios energéticos.Al mismo tiempo, se ha visto un fuerte au…
7 - 8 December 2015
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The possibilities for integrating the twin imperatives of pursuing climate resilience and debt reduction, from a Caribbean perspective, will be considered at a side event during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21).…
2 - 4 September 2015
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El taller ha tenido como objetivo analizar los desarrollos sobre seguros y microseguros agropecuarios en economías en desarrollo, evaluar el estado actual en la materia en los países SICA y discutir líneas estratégicas de acción de aseguramiento agropecuario en el marco de la gestión integral de riesgos.…
Top legal and business professionals from the United States and Latin America as they look to bridge industries and drive collaboration across borders. This year’s discussions will focus on how businesses across various industries are reshaping relationships within the region, as well as the transforming role and rising opportunities for the legal community.…
27 August 2019, 14:30 - 16:30
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A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) das Nações Unidas convida para o evento de debate e lançamento do livro “Alternativas para o desenvolvimento brasileiro: novos horizontes para a mudança estrutural com igualdade”. O evento ocorre às vésperas do XII Encontro Internacional da Associação Keynesiana Brasileira, que se realiza de 28 a 30 de agosto, em Campinas.
O livro é resultado das contribuições de jovens pesquisadores brasileiros para a análise do futuro da economia do Brasil, a partir das propostas e estruturas das análises da CEPAL. O livro, organizado pelo Escritó…
10 - 11 July 2025
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Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…
26 - 27 March 2025
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
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