The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will participate in diverse initiatives to promote sustainable and inclusive growth and the financing of actions aimed at combating global warming in the context of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is taking place from November 30 to December 11 in Paris, France.
On Saturday, December 5, at 6:30 p.m. local time, ECLAC will participate in the European Pavilion, located at the COP21’s official venue, during the launch of the new cooperation program of …
Authorities in the region, scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), international officials and business leaders will meet on August 18-19 at the seminar The Future of Energy: Latin America’s Path to Sustainability, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
The event, which will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, is being carried out in the framework of the UN Secretary-General’s initiative “Sustainable Energy for ALL” (SE4ALL), which aims to ensure universal access to sustaina…
Senior officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries began participating today in a meeting in Santiago, Chile to exchange positions about the content of an accord to combat climate change that is expected to be approved during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), which will be held in Paris next December.
The inauguration of the meeting was presided by Chile’s Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Edgardo Riveros; the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA…
Latin American and Caribbean countries must take a leap towards greater and better governance of natural resources to be able to lay the foundations for a process of sustainable development with equality, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stressed today during a keynote lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
The senior United Nations official was welcomed by Mireya Ímaz, Coordinator of UNAM’s Environmental University Program (PUMA), at the closing session of a certification course called The …