The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will celebrate its Thirtieth Session in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 June to 2 July 2004, with participation from some 300 delegates from the 41 member and seven associate states involved in this regional United Nations Commission, along with representatives from United Nations specialized bodies, non-governmental organizations and special guests. Official delegations will include ministers of education, the economy, labour, planning and foreign relations, along with other authorities from the different countries.
On this occas…
28 - 29 May
2019, 05:00 - 14:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The expert meeting was organized between ECLAC and the Executive Secretariat of The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN), in coordination with the delegates of the Ministries of Finance, particularly with the Ministry of Finance of Guatemala. Officials from other national, regional and international institutions directly related to national public investment systems also participated, as well as international cooperation agencies that support this matter.
Objective
The purpose was to better understand the advances made towards strength…
Labour inclusion policies, in combination with productive development and social protection policies, are key to reducing inequalities and the high degree of informality seen in Latin American and Caribbean countries, according to the authorities, scholars and international officials speaking at the inauguration of a three-day event that is being held at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The Third Regional Seminar on Social Development: Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in …
Since the creation of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, in 2016, solid progress has been made on promoting and strengthening the participation of the region’s civil society, representatives highlighted on Tuesday, April 25 at the inauguration of the Meeting of the Mechanism for Civil Society Participation (MeSCALC) in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.
The meeting was held using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual) prior to the official sta…
The Cuban financial landscape is marked by unstable, undiversified and largely unsustainable access to sources of development financing. Given the existence of a reduced and narrow range of sources of financing (family remittances, foreign direct investment, bilateral loans, official development assistance), the country depends on current flows – especially exports – to finance production, public services, infrastructure and development. This is an especially adverse context, even though Cuba is a middle-income country.
In recent years, the toughening of the U.S. blockade, the effects of the i…
High-level government authorities and officials from international organizations, along with representatives of the private sector, development and commercial banks and multilateral and bilateral cooperation partners, will participate in the Roundtable on Climate Finance and the Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place on September 1-2 at the central headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The event, which will be held using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual), is one of the fi…
The President of the Republic of Chile, Gabriel Boric Font, will lead the inauguration of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 1) to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Escazú Agreement – next Wednesday, April 20, at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
This event, which will take place through Friday, April 22, will for the first time convene authorities and official representatives of the countries that are already part of the region’s first …
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the countries of the region today to implement a post-pandemic economic recovery based environmental sustainability and equality, through new internal and international political coalitions and unprecedented forms of cooperation to sustain the change in development style.
The United Nations high official made remarks today at the XXII Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Government of Barbados in its capacity as president of th…
Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean, will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, where he will meet with the organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, followed by a press conference.
Thomson, originally from Fiji, is scheduled to make an official visit to Chile August 6-9, during which he will meet with country authorities and participate in an array of activities related to his role as advocate for the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s oceans.
The press conference, which …
Representatives of more than 200 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in various countries, government authorities and officials from international bodies agreed today at ECLAC that the active participation of civil society is indispensable for adopting decisions, planning and applying the policies that foster compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At this gathering of civil society – prior to the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will be held on April 18-20…
The Latin American and Caribbean countries that adhere to the regional initiative for the effective application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in the region – which refers to access to environmental information, participation and justice – will meet next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to continue negotiations toward a regional agreement on these matters.
Authorities, government officials, representatives of civil society and experts from international bodies will gather from 31 July to 4 August in the Seventh Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the …
Delegates from the 22 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that adhered to the regional initiative for the effective application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in the region—which refers to access to environmental information, participation and justice—will continue negotiations in Santiago, Chile to reach a regional accord on these matters.
Government officials as well as representatives of civil society will meet from November 21 through November 25 in the Fifth meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Informat…
(9 October 2014) "The greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change are ever greater and mitigation commitments, above all in developed countries but also in emerging economies, are not enough to stabilize climate conditions," the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, warned at the start of two meetings at the organization's headquarters in the Chilean capital.
The United Nations official indicated that the need to reach a global agreement, based on a true technological revolution and capable of converging with the post…
23 Oct 2020, 07:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), the Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Management (CGEE), the Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) will host the webinar “Energy Big Push: accelerating clean energy innovation in Brazil” on 23 October 2020, from 10am to 12pm in Brasilia (GMT-3).
Since early-2019, the Energy Big Push (EBP) Brazil has been a collaborative project aiming to support investments in innovation for a sustainable energy transition in the country. Led by CGEE, EPE, ECLAC/CEPAL an…
The Second Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Panama City from 26 to 28 September 2023.
This document contains the official report of the Second Annual Forum and summarizes the various panels, discussions and presentations. It also catalogues the proposals put forward by the breakout groups, which will serve as input for the preparation of the action plan on human rights defenders in environmental matters of the Escazú Agreement.…
The first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 1) to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Escazú Agreement – will take place on April 20-22 at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
At this event, which for the first time will bring authorities and official representatives of the countries that are already part of the region’s first environmental treaty together with others in the process of joining, attendees will review progress on the Agreement’s impleme…
The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicator Framework is endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission as the monitoring mechanism for the 169 targets and more than 230 indicators of the SDGs. Reporting of these indicators will pose a formidable challenge to the Caribbean given the statistical capacity of countries of the subregion. The results of an ECLAC survey show that only three of the eleven countries that participated reported having the capacity to produce at least 50 per cent of the indicators. The capacities of National Statistical Offices will need to be signif…
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…
This study reviews the level of statistical skills and competencies of staff of National Statistical Offices of the Caribbean as a critical step in enhancing the statistical capacity of National Statistical Systems in the subregion. Building on discussions of statistical literacy in national policies and regional frameworks such as the CARICOM Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS), the study explores statistical literacy and competencies using self-reported responses of NSO staff to a structured questionnaire that focused on technical expertise of staff and their perceptio…
The handiwork of CHATT will be on display at ECLAC Caribbean’s Port of Spain office for these three days, and several of the participating artisans will be present to share information on their work.
Members of the diplomatic community and the United Nations system were invited to enjoy this unique display of craftwork, which includes decorative and wearable crochet items, jewelry, clothing, hand –crafted lighting, glass and crystal works, all of which are on sale, just in time for early Christmas shopping!
The six-year-old organization CHATT, is based in Chaguanas, Trinidad …