Este volume apresenta o status do alinhamento do Brasil com os indicadores da Organização para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) para mudança do clima, meio ambiente e biodiversidade. O tema é um dos mais relevantes no processo de acessão do Brasil à organização econômica, por ao menos dois motivos principais. Primeiro, porque os temas climáticos e ambientais vêm ganhando cada vez mais expressão na política internacional e nas políticas públicas domésticas. Isso ocorre por conta da transversalidade da questão climático-ambiental neste início de século: a ciência já demonstrou q…
Latin America and the Caribbean must pick up the pace to achieve fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), representatives of the region’s 33 countries, of United Nations agencies and of regional, multilateral and civil society organizations warned today at the Sixth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which concluded this Friday, April 28, at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
As the meeting came to a close, the delegates insisted that while we are halfway through the period agreed upon…
América Latina y el Caribe deberá acelerar el paso para lograr el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030, alertaron hoy los representantes de los 33 países de la región, de agencias de las Naciones Unidas y organismos regionales, multilaterales y de la sociedad civil presentes en la Sexta Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que finalizó este viernes 28 de abril en la sede central de la CEPAL en Santiago, Chile.
Al cierre de la reunión los delegados insistieron en que, si bien nos encontramos en la …
A América Latina e o Caribe deverão acelerar o passo para alcançar o cumprimento dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) da Agenda 2030, alertaram hoje os representantes dos 33 países da região, de agências das Nações Unidas e organismos regionais, multilaterais e da sociedade civil presentes na Sexta Reunião do Fórum dos Países da América Latina e do Caribe sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável, encerrado esta sexta-feira, 28 de abril, na sede central da CEPAL em Santiago, Chile.
No encerramento da reunião os delegados insistiram em que, embora nos encontremos na metade do período acor…
In Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS), electrical power outages are frequent in the aftermath of major weather events. While local service disruptions often last a few days after these events, nationwide power grid failures lasting several weeks, or months have resulted in enormous social and economic impacts. In 2017, Hurricane Maria left 90 per cent of the population of Dominica without access to electricity for over four months (Commonwealth of Dominica, 2020) and caused a systemwide collapse of Puerto Rico's power grid that took 11 months to be entirely restored (Campbell…
The Caribbean faces multidimensional vulnerabilities driven by climate change and aggravated by Small Island Developing States’ natural and economic characteristics (SIDS). A critical natural feature of SIDS is the extreme vulnerability to climate-change-induced events. Economically, the Caribbean has followed the global trend of seeing its urban areas swell during the last decades. Moreover, the region’s coastal areas expose human settlements, infrastructure, and businesses to external shocks, such as climate change-induced extreme weather events. In addition, the 2019 novel coronavirus disea…
As is well known, Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to recurrent multidimensional shocks. These have lasting social, economic, and environmental impacts; effects expected to become further aggravated in a world with a persistently warming climate. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbates these impacts.…
Water, by its continuous movement within the Earth and the atmosphere is the primary medium through which climate change influences this planet’s natural, physical, chemical and biological systems and processes. Global warming is affecting seasonal rainfall variabilities, precipitation rates, and resulting in uncertainties of freshwater supplies. Fresh water including both surface and ground is a finite resource and essential to sustaining human health, economic, environmental and ecosystem services (UN 2021). The Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS) are highly vulnerable to the imp…
In the Caribbean, high water demand, changes in land use, climate variabilities impacts, deforestation, soil erosion, pollution, inadequate wastewater treatment, and the overexploitation of water sources1, impact on the quantity and quality of available freshwater resources. The management of freshwater resources through an integrated approach is internationally recognised as a best practice for supporting the sustainability of this finite resource.
The recent United Nations - 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report noted the low to medium-low levels of implementation of the integrated …
En este estudio se evalúa empíricamente cómo la cobertura boscosa puede reducir el impacto de las lluvias extremas en la actividad económica de Centroamérica. Para esos fines, se construyó un panel de datos usando observaciones de la tierra provenientes de imágenes satelitales. Se midió la actividad económica a través de las luces nocturnas y se caracterizaron las lluvias extremas usando series de lluvias diarias con alta resolución espacial. Finalmente, se evaluó y mapeó la cobertura boscosa y vegetal usando el índice de vegetación de diferencia normalizada (NDVI).…
Although the notion of a circular economy (CE) has been conceived and debated for more than half a century
(Henrysson and Nuur, 2021), it has gained considerable popularity in the lexicon of economists, ecologists and
other development thinkers over the past two decades. The increasing evidence of the existential threat of
human-induced climate change and the related imperatives of decarbonizing the global economy, have led to greater focus on strategies for a more sustainable use of the natural and environmental resource base.…
The renewable energy sector is a powerful engine of growth, job creation and innovation. We must start by giving access to electricity to the 20 million Latin Americans who still do not have it, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), indicated today during a high-level panel held in the framework of Latin America Energy Week, organized by the international company Siemens Energy.
ECLAC’s highest authority participated in the session of the event entitled “Energizing society to ensure successful and sustainable growth,” the c…
El sector energético renovable es un poderoso motor de crecimiento, generación de empleo e innovación. Se debe empezar por dar acceso a electricidad a 20 millones de latinoamericanos que aún no lo tienen, señaló hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante un panel de alto nivel realizado en el marco de la Semana de la Energía en América Latina, organizada por la compañía internacional Siemens Energy.
La máxima autoridad de la CEPAL participó en la sesión del evento titulada “Energizar a la sociedad para permitir un crecimi…
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