O escritório da CEPAL em Bogotá, no âmbito do projeto “Vínculos urbano-rurais e tecidos territoriais para o desenvolvimento inclusivo da Colômbia”, realizou três eventos entre diferentes atores para promover o conhecimento e o diálogo. Nesses espaços foram identificadas iniciativas sustentáveis que conectam espaços rurais e urbanos e indagou-se acerca do tipo de vínculos, relações, interdependências, alianças e redes que existem nos territórios, bem como das razões pelas quais surgiram e a forma de potencializar seu fortalecimento.
No Seminário Nacional Tecidos Territoriais, realizado em Bogot…
Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, con ocasión del segundo aniversario de la adopción del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe
Miércoles 4 de marzo, 2020
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Adriana Murillo, Embajadora de Costa Rica en Chile,
David Boyd, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente
Andrea Sanhueza, representante electa del público,
Embajadoras, embajadores y representantes de los países de América Latina y el Caribe,…
O Escritório da CEPAL em Brasília realizou em Madrid o evento paralelo “Energy Big Push: acelerando investimentos em inovação em energia sustentável no Brasil” em conjunto com o Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE), a Agência Internacional de Energia (IEA, na sigla em inglês), a Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE) e o Ministério de Relações Exteriores do Brasil (MRE). O evento ocorreu durante a 25ª Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas (COP25), em Madrid, no dia 11 de dezembro de 2019.…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the region’s countries to think about development in a different way to move towards a more innovative, diversified and inclusive vision, during a high-level event held today in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ECLAC’s highest authority was one of the main speakers at the seminar “Challenges for growth and development in Latin America,” organized by CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, in conjunction with the Argentine government.
Bárcena participated on a panel about challenges rela…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, instó hoy a los países de la región a pensar el desarrollo de una manera diferente para avanzar hacia una visión más innovadora, diversificada e inclusiva, durante un evento de alto nivel realizado en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La máxima autoridad de la CEPAL fue una de las oradoras principales del seminario “Desafíos para el crecimiento y el desarrollo en América Latina”, organizado por CAF-banco de desarrollo de América Latina, en conjunto con el Gobierno argentino.
Bárcena participó en el…
The Executive Secretariat of the Council of Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (Spanish acronym: SE-COSEFIN), along with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) officially launched the project Capacity Building for the Incorporation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation to Climate Change in Public Investment in COSEFIN/SICA Member Countries in San Salvador, El Salvador.
The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction of losses an…
La Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo de Ministros de Hacienda o Finanzas de Centroamérica, Panamá y República Dominicana (SE-COSEFIN), junto con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), y la Cooperación Suiza de América Central realizaron en San Salvador, El Salvador el lanzamiento oficial del proyecto denominado: Fortalecimiento de capacidades para la incorporación de la reducción de riesgo de desastres y la adaptación sostenible e incluyente al cambio climático de la inversión pública en los países miembros del COSEFIN/SICA.…
People of African descent have become active political and social actors during this century. They have managed to put their historical claims and revindications on public agendas, creating new State obligations to guarantee their fundamental rights and achieve greater levels of equality. There is therefore an urgent need to end the statistical invisibility of populations of African descent, which is an example of structural racism. Information is thus a fundamental tool for policies and for actions undertaken by Afrodescendent organizations, as well as for monitoring regional and internationa…
Promoting sustainable development and equality is not the work of a single actor – the State or the private sector – but rather of society as a whole, and the business sector plays a critical role, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) highlighted at a high-level event with Mexican businesspeople held on Tuesday, February 18 in Mexico City, and presided by Nicolás Mariscal Torroella, Chairman of Consejo Marhnos.
The United Nations regional organization’s most senior representative was one of the speakers on a panel entitled “Perspectives…
Promover el desarrollo sostenible y la igualdad no es tarea de un solo actor, el Estado o el sector privado, es una tarea de toda la sociedad, y el sector empresarial juega un papel fundamental, remarcó la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, en un evento de alto nivel con empresarios mexicanos realizado el martes 18 de febrero en Ciudad México, y presidido por Nicolás Mariscal Torroella, Presidente del Consejo Marhnos.
La máxima representante del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas fue una de las expositoras en el panel P…
América Latina y el Caribe y la Unión Europea son los principales actores en el mercado global del café. La región es la mayor productora y exportadora del mundo, pero en ella varios millones de pequeños productores enfrentan una situación socioeconómica crítica, por causa de los bajos precios internacionales y la desigual distribución de las ganancias a lo largo de la cadena. A su vez, el mercado europeo es el mayor consumidor mundial de café, con un creciente aumento en sus exigencias respecto de la sostenibilidad de toda la cadena del café. La cooperación entre ambos actores es entonces cla…
En este informe 2019-2020, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) plantean un enfoque intersectorial de “doble vía”, que, en primer lugar, llama al reconocimiento de que no es posible superar la pobreza ni combatir el hambre, la malnutrición y el cambio climático, si las sociedades y los actores políticos de América Latina y el Caribe no plantean lo rural como motor del desarrollo económico, social y ambiental en los …
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) agenda for sustainable development has as its foundation the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA 1994), the Mauritius Strategy for Further Implementation of the BPoA (MSI 2005) and more recently the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway 2014). These agreements representing 25 years of continual focus are the SIDS sustainable development blue prints.
With the objectives of positioning and maintaining a strategic SIDS focus across sustainable development agendas, this paper re-examines the Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Caribbean De…
In light of the high debt burden impacting Caribbean economies ECLAC has been pursuing an initiative designed to reduce the debt burden and advance sustainable development. The strategy has evolved over time and there is now agreement on an approach designed to bring financial resources to the Caribbean for resilience building while still emphasizing the importance of debt reduction. To address resilience and development financing, ECLAC proposes the establishment of a Caribbean Resilience Facility to be housed at a reputable financial institution. Such a facility would be capitalised by donor…
This study analyzes foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from the Republic of Korea to Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades to identify how Korean companies are investing in the region and which lessons can be learned from this relationship. The study relies on the analysis of investment flows, greenfield projects, and mergers and acquisitions as well as on interviews with entrepreneurs and authorities and a survey conducted on a small sample of suppliers of the automotive industry in Mexico. The Republic of Korea is a valuable economic partner for countries in Latin Ame…
The Caribbean region is prone to disasters due to its geographic location. The exposures and resulting impacts of these disasters are aggravated by persistent social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities. Compounded with the region’s current dependence on imported fossil fuels and financial constraints, this study seeks to stimulate discussions around the complementarity of energy with every societal sector as well as its links with disaster risk management, and promote government-wide management that integrates energy policies, disaster management and climate change impacts.…
Inequality is the structural cause of social unrest in the region. For that reason, we need to move from a culture of privileges to a culture of equality and social inclusion, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), affirmed at the meeting of the World Economic Forum 2020, which concluded today in Davos, Switzerland.
The senior United Nations official participated throughout the week in numerous sessions of the global Forum, addressing the origins and persistence of inequality in the region’s countries as well as the impact th…
La desigualdad es la causa estructural del malestar social en la región. Por ello, necesitamos avanzar de la cultura de los privilegios a la cultura de igualdad y la inclusión social, afirmó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial 2020 que culminó hoy en Davos, Suiza.
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas participó durante la semana en diversas sesiones del Foro global, en las que abordó el origen y la persistencia de la desigualdad en los países de la región, así como el impacto…
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