Natural resources
Es estudio de los recursos naturales busca mejorar las capacidades institucionales de los países de América Latina y el Caribe para la buena gobernanza y la explotación y utilización sostenibles de los recursos naturales, centrándose en el agua y el saneamiento, la energía, los recursos extractivos, la agricultura, la diversidad biológica y la bioeconomía.
Activities
First Regional Dialogue on Energy Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Just Energy Transition, Public Policy, Regional Cooperation and Development with Equality
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), together with Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and Energy Research Off...
6th Regional Water Dialogues 2026: Positioning Water Resources as a Strategic Asset for Sustainable Development
The meeting will take place on may 27 and 28 in the Dominican Republic, in an in-person format, and will seek to define a regional roadmap towards the...
II Regional Andean Water Forum 2026
At the II Regional Andean Water Forum 2026, ECLAC Economic Affairs Officer Dr. Silvia Saravia Matus presented a regional diagnosis highlighting five s...
News
Latin America and the Caribbean Must Integrate Better, Within and Beyond the Region, to Harness Global Transformations: ECLAC
In Madrid, the organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated in the launch of the report “Latin American Economic Ou...
ECLAC and the United Nations Regional Commissions Sign the Xi’an Declaration to Advance Secure, Affordable, Resilient and Inclusive Energy Systems
The Executive Secretaries of the five Regional Commissions signed the declaration at the conclusion of the Fifteenth International Forum on Energy for...
ECLAC Warns that an Extreme El Niño Event Could Cause a 2% Loss in Regional GDP and Place 4.8 Million More People in Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC’s Special Report No. 3 emphasizes the historic magnitude of the current phenomenon and urges governments to implement ten priority policy recomm...
ECLAC takes part in a regional workshop advancing the development of a Roadmap on Gender and Water for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2027–2030
With the second United Nations Water Conference on the horizon, representatives of public institutions, international organizations, academia, and civ...