Los Estados insulares del Caribe han sufrido en los últimos seis meses las consecuencias de la peor temporada de huracanes del siglo, con más de 102 fallecidos y territorios completamente devastados, como Barbuda, Anguila, San Martín, Dominica, Cuba y Puerto Rico, entre otros. Para ayudar en su reconstrucción y futura adaptación a los desastres naturales será necesario cambiar los criterios que permiten su acceso a financiamiento, coincidieron hoy altos funcionarios internacionales reunidos en Nueva York en una sesión especial del Consejo Económico y Social de las Naciones Unidas (ECOSOC)…
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…
I wish to thank DESA and the Permanent Mission on Singapore for inviting me and the Regional Commissions to this Special Lunch on SIDS for SIDS collaboration.
Thank you so much for this opportunity to showcase the support that we, the Regional Commissions, are providing at the regional and subregional levels in support to Small Island Developing States in the implementation, follow-up and review of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean is the main regional think-tank and knowledge hub on sustainable development and the inter-gover…
This paper examines if recent sharp declines in the price of oil and other fossil fuels will discourage private investment in renewable energy, which is key for climate change mitigation. The increase in private renewables investment in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region have been driven by sharp declines in costs alongside supportive policies.
The sharp fall in the price of oil and other fossil fuels since 2014 risks disrupting continued private investment in renewables if they becomes insufficiently profitable. The decline in oil and other fossil fuel prices presents an opportu…