El viernes 30 de agosto de 2024, en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe en Santiago, Chile, se efectuó la sesión de clausura de la 25ª versión del Programa de Estudios sobre Políticas del Desarrollo de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios del Desarrollo (ELADES) de la CEPAL.
En esta edición del Programa –iniciada el 11 de julio- postularon 283 personas de 29 países del mundo. Las/os 28 estudiantes seleccionadas/os provinieron de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, España, Italia, México, Paraguay, República Dominicana y Uruguay.
Entre las act…
Los resultados de la consulta fueron presentados por el Departamento Nacional de Planeación, el Compromiso Empresarial para el Reciclaje (CEMPRE Colombia) y la CEPAL, organismos que destacaron la importancia de la economía circular como un sector impulsor de cambios transformadores con equidad y sostenibilidad.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
This brief is intended to provide general information on the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference on scaling up ocean actions based on science and innovation for the
implementation of Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), with a view to stimulating more active, engaged participation of the Caribbean in the discussions. The
United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-chaired by Kenya and Portugal, and hosted by the Government of Portugal in Lisbon, during 2021. The objective of this conference is consistent with the 2017 UN General Assembly proclamation on the Decade of Oce…
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
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