Financing the transition to a green economy in Latin America and the Caribbean demands innovative approaches to address the region’s significant investment gap, estimated at 7%–11% of GDP annually by 2050. This publication focuses on the financial strategies underpinning green productive development policies, which make up a transformative and comprehensive framework that integrates economic goals with environmental sustainability.
Key insights include strategies to reallocate subsidies, lower capital costs and foster private sector investment through blended finance and institutional capital…
The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is an example of multilateralism in action and of the capacity to harmonize interests, pursue agreements and partnerships, and make progress on shared cooperation agendas, representatives of the region’s countries, of United Nations agencies and of regional, multilateral and civil-society organizations agreed today at the eighth meeting of this platform, which concluded on Friday, April 4 at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Five years before the deadline for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda, these d…
El Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible es ejemplo de multilateralismo en acción y de la capacidad de convenir voluntades, buscar acuerdos y alianzas, y avanzar en agendas comunes de cooperación, coincidieron hoy representantes de países de la región, de agencias de las Naciones Unidas y organismos regionales, multilaterales y de la sociedad civil presentes en la octava reunión de la plataforma, que finalizó este viernes 4 de abril en la sede principal de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile.
A cinco años de que se cumpla el plazo de la Agenda 2030, los…
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