Carbon footprint

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:

16 - 19 October 2018 | Meetings and technical symposiums

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.

22 - 24 January 2018 | Meetings and technical symposiums

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.

17 - 18 October 2017 | Other events

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:

24 September 2021 | Article

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.

17 June 2019 | News

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.

1 August 2018 | Press Release

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.

14 September 2016 | Press Release

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.