ANTECEDENTES
Diversos informes recientes, tales como el Global Risks 2014, del Foro Económico Mundial; La Protesta Social en América Latina, del PNUD;o el Informe Latino barómetro 2013, están dando cuenta de una creciente complejidad global de fenómenos sociales, políticos, económicos y ambientales y del incremento de la probabilidad de ocurrencia de procesos de carácter sistémico. Ejemplos tales como el calentamiento global, el ascenso de nuevos grupos medios, el creciente uso de nuevas tecnologías de información y redes sociales virtuales, y las elevadas brechas sociales expresadas en crecie…
17 Abr 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:23
|
Comunicado de prensa
Representantes de más de 200 organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) de varios países, autoridades de gobierno y funcionarios de organismos internacionales, coincidieron hoy en la CEPAL en que la activa participación de la sociedad civil es indispensable para la adopción de decisiones, la planificación y la aplicación de políticas que fomenten el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe.
En el encuentro de la sociedad civil, previo a la segunda reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se r…
30 Ago 2021, 05:00 - 08:00
|
Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
This workshop is the first of a two-part series and is designed for senior technical officers having responsibilities in selecting and using technologies to support DRM.…
3 Nov 2023, 06:00 - 14:00
|
Evento (Monitoring committee)
CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-first meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.…
1 Feb 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:30
|
Publicación
This document presents an overview of the regional progress made towards the targets and commitments derived from implementation plans and programmes for the main agreements of the Johannesburg Summit and Agenda 21 regarding human settlements thematic cluster in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been submitted as part of the preparatory process for the twelfth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, held in May 2004. A previous summary of this report was validated by the XII General Assembly of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Housing and Urban Developmen…
27 Mar 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:23
|
Nota informativa
El documento, que pone el foco en la acción climática, será presentado en el marco de la séptima reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realizará del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024.…
14 Oct 2022, 06:00 - 15:00
|
Evento (Comité Ejecutivo)
Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) Member Countries and Associate Members will convene for the 29th session.
(Meeting documents can be found below)…
Although the notion of a circular economy (CE) has been conceived and debated for more than half a century
(Henrysson and Nuur, 2021), it has gained considerable popularity in the lexicon of economists, ecologists and
other development thinkers over the past two decades. The increasing evidence of the existential threat of
human-induced climate change and the related imperatives of decarbonizing the global economy, have led to greater focus on strategies for a more sustainable use of the natural and environmental resource base.…
1 Oct 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:26
|
Publicación
This study has been prepared to assist the French Development Agency (AFD), as part of the implementation of its Framework for Action Regional Caribbean, to identify the main development issues of the Caribbean region and areas of future research. The study focuses on the state of the research in the Caribbean region and proposes areas for future collaboration between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the AFD. The areas of enquiry cover economic, social and cultural, environmental and international relations, with an emphasis on public policy. The study al…
La sexta reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, en la que autoridades y representantes de los gobiernos, del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, organismos internacionales, sector privado, academia y sociedad civil revisarán los avances y desafíos de la implementación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la región, se realizará del 25 al 28 de abril en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago, Chile.
El Foro regional -que se realiza anualmente desde 2017- busca proporcionar a los responsables de la implementación de la Agenda 2030 en los p…
This workshop is the second of a two-part series and is designed for technical officers responsible for GIS and application developers supporting DRM.…
15 Nov 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:22
|
Comunicado de prensa
The Government of Peru and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their resolve to strengthen cooperation on distinct matters related to economic, social and environmental development, during an official visit lasting 24 hours that Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, made today to that country.
The senior United Nations authority led an official ECLAC mission to Lima, the first since President Pedro Castillo was sworn into office on July 28 of this year, with the aim of reaffirming the organization’s willingness to work jointly on those ar…
31 Ago 2012, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:29
|
Comunicado de prensa
(30 August 2012) Today, authorities and experts stressed the relevance in this global economic crisis of the structural change for equality that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is proposing to the region as part of its thirty-fourth session being held from Monday 27 to Friday 31 August in El Salvador.
On the fourth day of ECLAC's most important biennial meeting, Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented the main proposals from the latest institutional document entitled Structural change for equality: An integrated approach to development, which outlines…
15 Nov 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:22
|
Comunicado de prensa
El Gobierno de Perú y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) reafirmaron hoy su voluntad de fortalecer la cooperación en distintas materias vinculadas al desarrollo económico, social y ambiental, durante una visita oficial de 24 horas realizada por Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, a ese país.
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas encabezó una misión oficial de la CEPAL a Lima, la primera desde que el Presidente Pedro Castillo asumió su mandato el pasado 28 de julio, con el objetivo de reafirmar la disposición del organismo a trabajar de forma conjun…
27 Mar 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
|
Publicación
Our Caribbean civilisation has been very much shaped by the sea. The evidence of this in our region abounds from time immemorial: the peopling of our Caribbean; its trading; its economy and commerce, ancient and modern; its daily living and eating; its culture and its thinking. All these facets of life and production have been moulded, even determined, by the sea. Yet, strangely our Caribbean civilisation has yet to reflect in public policy the real value and significance of the sea which joins us all. To be sure, each country in the region has its own ministry of fisheries but each m…
This policy brief has the objective of profiling disaster risk management policies in five selected member states of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: The Bahamas, Belize, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, and analyze their interactions with broader development issues and instruments, such as national development plans and climate change adaptation strategies. To this end, firstly, it presents the five pillars for Disaster Risk Managenent (DRM), namely risk identification, risk reduction, preparedness, financial protection, and resilient recovery, as well as their a…
As is well known, Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to recurrent multidimensional shocks. These have lasting social, economic, and environmental impacts; effects expected to become further aggravated in a world with a persistently warming climate. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbates these impacts.…