1 Oct 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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Summary In Latin America, energy efficiency and renewable energy offer great potential for reducing the negative effects of the ever-increasing rates of energy consumption associated with economic growth and the move towards more energy-intensive societal models. Despite over two decades of discussions aimed at giving energy efficiency and renewable energy more prominent positions in the energy policies of Latin American countries, little has been achieved so far. The fact that these issues have not been integrated into energy policies reflects, to a certain extent, a failure on t…
18 Jun 2001, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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Introduction Biodiversity, as the name implies, is the term used to describe the differences that exist between and among the various species of organisms on the planet earth. Biodiversity can be measured on a worldwide basis, on a regional basis, on a national basis, as well as on a zonal basis. The interactions of these various species provide the basis for sustaining life, human life in particular. On that basis then, it is of utmost importance that the biodiversity of any area be preserved and this can only be done by a proper understanding of the organisms, their relative positions and in…
14 Ago 2019, 05:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
The present workshop will seek to analyze how the Escazú Agreement contributes to the implementation of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda in an effective and coherent manner in Guyana. To that end, it will specifically review key provisions of the Escazú Agreement and analyze national strengths, weaknesses and opportunities considering the current legislative and policy framework. It will also seek to identify gaps, needs and priorities and set the stage for national strategies and plans of action to more effectively implement the Escazú Agreement in the context of the environment…
11 Nov 2019, 06:00 - 13:00
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Evento (Otros eventos)
The seminar is organized by the Government of Saint Lucia, the Saint Lucia National Trust and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC).
The objectives of the seminar are:
to raise awareness on the Escazú Agreement and its synergies with the 2030 Agenda and other international processes
to examine the state of the art of implementation of access rights in the region with a particular focus on the Caribbean sub-region
to review the Saint Lucian internal framework in the context of the Regional Agreement to support the ratification process…
24 Abr 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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Documento de trabajo
The final report of the Expert Review presents a suite of policy recommendations aimed at helping countries break free of the ‘triple crisis’ of escalating debt burdens, climate change and nature loss. The recommendations provide practical proposals on how to unlock finance for sustainable development - a task made even more urgent by the recent geopolitical events.The Independent Expert Group is grateful to the members of the Expert Review Secretariat who have contributed to the research and drafting of this Report: Gabriel Oddone, Alfonso Capurro, Francisco Rosas, Martin Pereyra (CEPAL/ECLAC…
Dear Executive Secretaries of the sister UN Regional Economic Commissions,
Dear Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team (CAT)
Dear Thilmeeza Hussain, Director of the Regional Commissions New York Office,
Distinguished guests, colleagues, and participants,
Welcome to this side-event on how Critical Energy Transition Minerals can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), convened under the auspices of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions.
Today, we gather to address a defining challenge of our time: powering and enabling the…
11 Mar 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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Between 2000 and 2019 the Caribbean Community produced between 0.11 and 0.16% of global emissions. However, despite being only minor emitters these countries find themselves highly exposed to the impact of climate change, increasingly vulnerable to floods, droughts, rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, hurricanes and coral bleaching etc. Furthermore, CARICOM Member States have submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). The subregion has, however, lagged behind in the receipt of grant and concessionary su…
Speaking on revitalizing the push to achieve the SDGs by 2030 (17 goals that address critical areas for the enhancement of human wellbeing the protection of the environment), she notes that Caribbean countries face an uphill task because of burdensome debt and debt service with small, undiversified economies, exposure to devastating climate induced natural hazards, limited technical and institutional capacity and inadequate access to low-cost financing.
“The international community has not shown the empathy to Small Island States that have been graduated… You have a per capita income th…
2 Ene 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:19
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In this digitally transforming world, digital inclusion is becoming increasingly important to social inclusion and sustainable development. Affordable access to broadband is an essential precondition to digital inclusion. Internet quality, as measured by speed and other indicators, is also important, as digital inclusion is ultimately about ensuring equal access to the benefits and opportunities offered by digital technologies and the Internet. This policy brief provides insight into Internet speed and affordability across the Caribbean, and offers some recommendations for policymakers working…
19 Mayo 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
Meeting participants included representatives from the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Arts, and an artisan from Saint Lucia.
During the meeting, participants underscored the importance of creating avenues to allow artisans to have direct interaction with tourists, as well as the need to establish easier financing packages and the necessary infrastructure for artisans who are more business oriented.
These measures would help to strengthen linkages between the arts and touri…
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:19
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This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:19
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Noticias
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.
ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and will cont…
The Kyoto Protocol provides a framework for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations. These reduction targets will have economic impacts that will affect not only those industrialized countries but also other developing countries around the world. In this context, the following document analyzes the economic implications of the reduction of carbon emissions from industrialized countries (Annex I countries under the Kyoto Protocol) and the participation of developing countries, including those in Latin America, under different carbon trading scenarios. The document …
The Latin America megacities and sustainability panorama is an effort aimed to understand the complex urban processes and to discuss urban risks under sustainability criteria. In order to define research agendas as well as for policy design purposes, a closer look at the challenges of metropolitan areas in Latin America requires an identification of common urban trends in the region. Although metropolitan cities and regions in LAC present common problems and challenges, the intensity of specific aspects related to sustainability changes from one city to another. The present report discusses th…
From a broad sustainable development viewpoint, intellectual property (IP) might relate to a number of aspects of a country's social and economic development. Its impact can be felt in industrial, health, education, nutrition, biodiversity and cultural policies. In exploring the issues relating to sustainable development and the important changes that have taken place in the IP landscape, we will focus on issues that are drawing particular attention in major international for and to developments that are taking place in bilateral trade negotiations.This paper will thus focus on understand…
1 Mayo 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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The following is an extension of research in the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements on sustainable development and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The syndrome approach to global environmental change proposed by the German Advisory Council on Global Change was previously adapted for the examination of sustainable development in the region, and a potential regional syndrome of agriculturalization in the Argentinean Pampas was proposed and explored by regional experts from an array of disciplines. The syndrome approach is meant to facilitate a transdisciplinary …
Hubert Escaith is Director of the Division of Statistics and Economic Projections of ECLAC. These methodological notes were prepared for a lecture at the 2005 ECLAC Summer School. They are based on, and up-date, a series of papers in Spanish published in 2003 and 2004, which received in 2005 the award Maestro Jesus Silva Herzog from Economic Research Institute of the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. …
18 Jun 2004, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:19
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Presentation
The countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region have shown a keen
and lasting interest in mechanisms of economic development and public policies for its
promotion. This is a process in which ECLAC has been involved ever since it was founded
over half a century ago. Today, the debate on these issues continues against the backdrop
of a globalization process in which the remarkable dynamism of some dimensions
-especially its economic, financial and cultural aspects- contrasts with the
slow formation of an institutional network capable of coping with the increased
interdepend…
28 Feb 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:32
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The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, from 22 to 24 April 2024.…