Temario provisional. Cuarta Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible

Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL expondrá sobre la situación de la región en el Foro Económico Mundial 2020

La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participará esta semana en diversas sesiones del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, por sus siglas en inglés) 2020, en las que abordará temas como la persistencia de la desigualdad y el descontento social en la región, así como los alcances del Plan de Desarrollo Integral para El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y el sur-sureste de México, entre otros. El encuentro anual del Foro Económico Mundial tendrá lugar del 21 al 24 de enero de 2020 en la ciudad suiza de Davos bajo el lema “Movilización gene…

Proposal for a revitalized Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee - Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Sustainable Development (CDCC-RCM): Repositioning CDCC-RCM as the mechanism for sustainable development in Caribbean small island developin...

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…

A big push for sustainability in Brazil’s energy sector Input and evidence for policy coordination

Today, Brazil and many countries around the world are seeking to stimulate economic recovery and improve people’s quality of life. In this context, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations has been developing the Big Push for Sustainability, a renewed approach to support the efforts of the countries of the region to design more sustainable development models, by coordinating policies to promote investments that will transform existing models. The ECLAC office in Brasilia and the Center for Strategic Studies and Management (CGEE), in conjunction …

Financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Urgent considerations for the Caribbean

A Blue Path for the Caribbean: Ocean Sustainability for Prosperity and Resilience