The Latin America megacities and sustainability panorama is an effort aimed to understand the complex urban processes and to discuss urban risks under sustainability criteria. In order to define research agendas as well as for policy design purposes, a closer look at the challenges of metropolitan areas in Latin America requires an identification of common urban trends in the region. Although metropolitan cities and regions in LAC present common problems and challenges, the intensity of specific aspects related to sustainability changes from one city to another. The present report discusses th…
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Comunicado de prensa
(12 de noviembre, 2010) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, se reunió esta semana en Berlín con autoridades del Gobierno de la República Federal de Alemania con quienes se reafirmó la importancia de la cooperación técnica alemana en la región.
En el marco del "Foro América Latina y el Caribe-Unión Europea (ALC-UE): Política fiscal y economía ambientalmente sostenible en el contexto del cambio climático", Bárcena sostuvo reuniones con altas autoridades de los Ministerios de Cooperación, Relaciones Exteriores y Medio Ambiente,…
12 Abr 2010, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:31
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Comunicado de prensa
(9 de abril, 2010) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, destacó las políticas y estrategias que podrían implementarse para superar los déficits en materia de servicios sanitarios y vivienda en la región y para la promoción de economías bajas en carbono que ayuden a un desarrollo sostenible de los países.
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas participó en dos sesiones del Foro Económico Mundial para América Latina 2010, que se realizó en Cartagena, Colombia, tituladas "Erradicando los déficits de vivienda" y "Hacia una pr…
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Publicación
This study presents an analysis of extreme events in the Caribbean subregion for the period
1990 to 2008, and forms part of a similar, wider study focused on the Latin America and the
Caribbean region (Central America and South America being the other two subregional components).
It explores the economic costs of climate change through an examination of adaptation costs to
extreme events. ECLAC, through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is pleased to have
been able to undertake this study with the financial support of DFID and to have ensured its
successful execution in collabora…
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Publicación
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with the
Caribbean Development Bank, convened the meeting “Promoting Energy Efficiency in the
Caribbean” on 13–14 May 2010 at its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, in Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago. The meeting had its genesis in the convening of consultations in 2009 with
Latin American and Caribbean countries, members of the Latin American Energy Agency, and
resulted in a report calling for greater awareness of energy efficiency among Caribbean countries, so
as to provide the impetus of the de…
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Publicación
El estudio Evaluación del potencial de reducción de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI); y producción de energía a partir de rellenos sanitarios y vertederos en ciudades de Costa Rica fue financiado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL); y coordinado por el Ministerio de Ambiente, Energía y Telecomunicaciones (MINAET);. Se analizaron, por medio de las metodologías y herramientas aprobadas del Mecanismo de Desarrollo limpio (MDL);, y de reuniones, visitas y entrevistas, las emisiones futuras de GEI en los sitios de disposición de residuos sólidos, …
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Publicación
This report is commissioned by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, with the overall purpose of examining the extent to which the pursuit of sustainable development in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is guided by human rights considerations and, more specifically, to what extent human rights principles, norms, and standards are being integrated and mainstreamed in development programmes and projects, following a rights-based approach to development. For ECLAC itself, this is a relatively new approach…
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Publicación
The small island developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean referred to in this report comprise Antigua
and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada,
Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname,
The Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States Virgin Islands. As far back as 1994,
these countries expressed commitment to implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA)
for SIDS and have reiterated their support in making progress in achieving the targets set…