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Carbon footprint
In line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, here at ECLAC we take action to raise the awareness of carbon footprint and climate change by organizing meetings and technical symposium as well as providing various briefing notes and articles in this regard. To meet the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, global cooperative actions are needed to alleviate the effects of global climate change and to improve public health.
Activities
Second Cities Conference: Towards Safe, Affordable and Sustainable Urban Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Cities Conference II will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile during the 16-19 of October 2018.
Promoting Carbon Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, High Level Regional Dialogue on Carbon Pricing and MRV in the Americas
This event will facilitate a dialogue between the national and sub national governments of the Americas and other experts on carbon-pricing.
Fifth Workshop of the Latin American and Caribbean Network on the Environmental Footprint of Coffee
On October 17 and 18, 2017, the Fifth Workshop of the Latin American and Caribbean Network on the Environmental Footprint of Coffee was held in Lima, Peru, seeking to incorporate environmental sustainability as a factor in export competitiveness.
News
Scale up carbon dioxide removal to achieve climate targets, urge United Nations regional leaders
In a joint statement, the Executive Secretaries of the United Nations Regional Commissions have called for enhanced regional cooperation to develop nature-based and technological solutions for capturing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and ensuring its long-term storage.
New Document by ECLAC Analyzes the Values of the Social Cost of Carbon for the Development of Public Policies on Climate Change in the Region
The social cost of carbon identifies the economic cost that an additional tonne of CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere entails for economic activities, social well-being and ecosystems.
Experts Stress the Urgency of Decarbonizing Economies to Stem the Ecological Debt and Concretize the Environmental Big Push
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, inaugurated the First Peer-to-Peer Dialogue of Euroclima+ Countries.
Alicia Bárcena: The Region Must Respond to the Challenge of Sustainable Growth with a Big Environmental Push
In the framework of the inauguration of the Latin American Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary called on the region to plan investment and spending with sustainability.
