Welcome remarks by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Port of Spain, 5-7 May 2015
Excellencies, academic staff, ladies and gentlemen,
This is my first time in the Caribbean and it is a pleasure to be in Port of Spain and especially at the celebrated University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Today, the Caribbean, like Latin America, is facing a future fraught with challenges and uncertainty. It is unclear whether the models and strategies that have d…
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena
Executive Secretary, ECLAC, United Nations
High Level Launch of the
Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data
Hosted by the Governments of the United States, Kenya, Mexico, and Colombia
New York, 28 September 2015
Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary General of OECD
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Corporate Secretary and President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals, World Bank Group
Amina J.Mohammed, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Planning
Justine Greening, UK Secretary of State for International Dev…
Opening Statement by Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at the 17th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
June 26, 2015
Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Minister Arnaldo Brown, Chair of the CDCC, Jamaica
Minister Winston Dookeran, Trinidad
Ambassador George Talbot, Co-Chair of the Financing for Development process
Other Distinguished Ministers and Senior Representatives of Government,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Representatives of the United Nations system, regional and international organizations,
Members of the Media,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends,…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.
ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and will cont…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.
ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and wil…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
ECOSOC dialogue with the executive secretaries of the United Nations regional commissions
Title: Managing the transition to the sustainable development goals: what it will take at the regional level
Venue: ECOSOC Chamber Date: 9 July 2015 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Your Excellency, Martin Sajdik, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Your Excellency, Maria Emma Mejía, Vice-…
(8 de mayo, 2015) La igualdad debe ser el motor del crecimiento económico y el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe, planteó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en la décima reunión sobre América Latina del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, según sus siglas en inglés), que finaliza hoy en Cancún, México.
La máxima representante de la CEPAL fue una de las expositoras en el panel From Poverty to Prosperity (De la pobreza a la prosperidad) realizado el jueves durante el evento que reúne a más de 750 líderes de gobierno, …
América Latina y el Caribe debe cerrar brechas estructurales en materia productiva, educativa y de ingresos para avanzar hacia un desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible, pues la desigualdad conspira contra la estabilidad de las democracias, dijo Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante dos foros realizados en el marco de la VII Cumbre de las Américas que comienza el viernes en Panamá.
Esta semana el organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas redujo a 1% su proyección de crecimiento de la economía regional en 2015 debido al context…
Staff members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean worked side by side with communities in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to protect and preserve the local environmental heritage, in a special commemoration of the United Nations World Environment Day 2015.
Under the theme “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume With Care”, World Environment Day was celebrated this year on Friday 5th June. ECLAC staff partnered with two local non-governmental organizations, the Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (VCTT) and…
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
Discussions will include consideration of a strategic alignment of the Pathway with the Sustainable Development goals being considered within the framework of the Post 2015 Development Agenda.
Known as the “SIDS Accelerated Modalities for Action”, the SAMOA Pathway is the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which was held in Apia, Samoa from 1-4 September 2014. Approved by the United Nations, this intergovernmental agreement serves as the blueprint for the SIDS’ approach to addressing their continuing sustainable development ch…
Thank you very much for the chance to address this important meeting in beautiful Santiago de Chile. I am delighted to see so many dynamic leaders here.
I am especially honoured by the presence of Her Excellency President Michelle Bachelet. We will always be grateful for her impressive legacy as the founding Executive Director of UN Women.
I stand before you as someone who is keenly aware of the struggle for women’s human rights.
My mother is 95 and still going strong. But when she came of age, she did not have the right to vote – like so many other women around the world at tha…
En una región altamente urbanizada como la de América Latina y el Caribe, la política urbana puede hacer la diferencia en materia de protección al medio ambiente, dijo el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Antonio Prado, durante el International Seminar on Consumption Patterns for Sustainable Development. Challenges and opportunities for a post-2015 world (Seminario internacional sobre patrones de consumo para el desarrollo sostenible sostenible. Desafíos y oportunidades para el mundo post-2015), realizado los días 30 de junio y 1 de …
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will engage regional experts in discussions regarding the development of an inter-regional maritime passenger transportation system, which will encourage the maximum utilization of the region’s ample available maritime resource.
The Caribbean embraces large maritime space, yet this resource remains vastly under-utilized. Opportunities exist for it to be developed for economic and other benefits for the region.
The possibilities for developing a regional maritime transport system will be addressed when ECLAC’s subregional headq…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Chile will host the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) in Santiago de Chile from September 9-11. The conference will cover the latest developments in market-based mechanisms to address climate change, carbon trading, climate finance, and low-emission development.
The Minister of Environment of Chile, Pablo Badenier, will offer a speech at the opening of the meeting, at 9.00 am. on September 9.
Coming just months before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where co…
PALABRAS DE ALICIA BÁRCENA, SECRETARIA EJECUTIVA DE LA CEPAL,
EN OCASIÓN DEL ENCUENTRO CON THOMAS PIKETTY,
AUTOR DE “EL CAPITAL EN EL SIGLO XXI”
15 de enero de 2015
Santiago de Chile
CEPAL
Bienvenido a esta, la casa de las Naciones Unidas en América Latina y el Caribe. A nombre de la CEPAL y el mío propio, le agradezco que haya aceptado nuestra invitación para compartir esta jornada, en medio de una agenda muy exigente.
Quiero felicitarlo por la calidad de su libro, resultado de 15 años de trabajo.
Su visita coincide con acontecimientos lamentables fundados en la intolerancia y en la vi…
This draft final assessment report presents an assessment of the Development Account project “Improving the Management of Resources for the Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean”. commissioned by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report is made up of the following sections: Introduction, assessment management,findings and analysis. and lessons learnt, best practices and recommendations.…
La Reunión Intersesional se llevó a cabo del 17 al 19 de noviembre de 2015 en Ciudad de México con el objeto de dar seguimiento a las decisiones adoptadas en la reunión previa y preparar las recomendaciones para considerar por los Ministros en el próximo Foro a celebrarse en Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) en marzo de 2016.…
(17 de abril, 2015) Los países miembros de la CEPAL lanzaron un proceso de consulta para la creación del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, durante una reunión extraordinaria del Comité Plenario de este organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, celebrada el jueves 16 de abril en Santiago, Chile.
El Comité Plenario es un órgano subsidiario de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) que permite a los gobiernos de los países miembros reunirse entre las sesiones oficiales de la Comisión. En su trigésimo período de sesiones, reali…