28 Oct 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:47
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Discurso
Discurso de cierre del trigésimo octavo período de sesiones de la CEPAL
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL
Santiago, 28 de octubre de 2020
Querido Rodolfo Solano Quirós, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de Costa Rica,
Dear Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary General, thank you for being with us today,
Esteemed Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations and Chair of the Group of 77 and China,
Distinguidos Cancilleres, Viceministros y delegados de los Estados miembros de la CEPAL,
Señoras y señores miembros del Cuerpo D…
15 Jul 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:48
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Comunicado de prensa
Los países de América Latina y el Caribe reafirmaron hoy su compromiso con el desarrollo sostenible y urgieron por una respuesta articulada y a todos los niveles para frenar y contrarrestar los profundos efectos que tendrá en la región la pandemia del coronavirus (COVID-19), que no distingue fronteras, ideologías o niveles de desarrollo.
Rodrigo Malmierca, Ministro del Comercio Exterior y la Inversión Extranjera de Cuba, en su calidad de presidente del Comité Plenario de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), participó en el segmento “Foros regionales. Mensajes claves”,…
9 Ene 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:48
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Publicación
This study investigates the role that information and communication technologies (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) are playing in supporting sustainable development across islands in these countries. Focusing on the areas of health, education and governance, the study uses the multi-island countries of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands as case studies to explore inter-island differences in ICT and KM capacity and the scope for strengthening this capacity. It concludes with a series of recommendations for governments of Caribbean multi-island countries w…
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
This brief is intended to provide general information on the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference on scaling up ocean actions based on science and innovation for the
implementation of Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), with a view to stimulating more active, engaged participation of the Caribbean in the discussions. The
United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-chaired by Kenya and Portugal, and hosted by the Government of Portugal in Lisbon, during 2021. The objective of this conference is consistent with the 2017 UN General Assembly proclamation on the Decade of Oce…
31 Ene 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:48
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Publicación
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…