Over the past 50 years, the global annual production of plastics has increased dramatically, from 15 million tons in 1964 to roughly 311 million tons by 2014. This spectacular growth has occurred due to its unrivalled physical properties, which allow it to be widely applied in diverse economic production processes, at low cost. One of its main appplications has been in the packaging industry where roughly 26% of the global volume of plastics is used. More importantly, as much as 95% of plastic packaging – estimated at USD 80 – 120 billion annually - is for single-use, either as packaging or as…
At the thirteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 23-24 August 2007, delegates agreed to the establishment of a working group to explore ways of improving the effectiveness, visibility and relevance of the CDCC.
The need for the establishment of the working group arose out of the recognition that the CDCC has been handicapped by the following: (a) a loss of its original vision and mission as a result of its changing operational context; (b) institutional overload in the regional institutional architecture as a result of the deepenin…
The Subregional review of youth policies and strategies in the Caribbean offers an overview of national policies on youth in 29 Caribbean states and territories that are members or associate members of ECLAC. The report aims at providing a comprehensive review of the state of youth policies and programmes in the Caribbean, its current operational status, and the involvement of youth in guiding future implementation, including enhancing the understanding of the complex and multifaceted challenges facing youth empowerment, based on a set of international and subregional standards for youth polic…
The Government of Saint Lucia continues to take a strategic approach to the development of the energy sector and to this end, in 2010 elaborated a comprehensive national energy policy. In 2018, the country also adopted its National Energy Transition Strategy, which is intended to chart the way forward for the inclusion of RE in the electricity generation mix.
While there has been some attention given to the whole issue of renewable energy and its inclusion in the generation mix, there has not been a similar level of attention paid to the study of energy efficiency and the benefits which are wi…
Benchmarking and monitoring any multi-country, multi-thematic Plan of Action is a necessary but extremely difficult task. Quantifying goals set forth in a regional Action Plan related to a new and innovative subject such as information society development is even more challenging. Goals may not be objectively measured, subjects may be very recent, indicators may not have been developed and/or information may simply not exist regarding the status of, and advancements in, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is for this reason that paragraph 28…
Although oil production is just starting in Guyana, the Government of Guyana is well aware that fossil fuels are a finite resource and do not last forever. It therefore continues to take a strategic approach to the development of a sustainable and cleaner energy sector, and the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is considering energy efficiency measurements as a tool for strengthening energy security, securing a long-term reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and increasing revenue and cost savings. With the support of the Regional Observatory on Sustainable Energies (ROSE), GEA has built a database o…
This paper presents a discussion of the major methodological issues relating to some key studies assessing the employment effects of a particular PTA using different methodologies (General and Partial Equilibrium, Gravitational models, Micro simulations, Econometrics using panel data, etc.). In this line, the paper discusses an accounting model for decomposing the ex - post employment performance as related to Latin America Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), proposing this method to evaluate the Chile - Mexico PTA as an illustration. The paper defines a research agenda using an Employment e…
Representantes de los países latinoamericanos y caribeños reunidos en la Quinta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe y el XV Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe reafirmaron hoy la importancia de poner a las personas y sus derechos en el centro del desarrollo, resguardar los avances en materia de desarrollo social inclusivo alcanzados por la región mediante la inversión social adecuada y frenar los retrocesos causados por la pandemia de COVID-19 y las crisis en cascada.
En la cita regional, organizada por la Comi…
La Red Iberoamericana de Oficinas de Cambio Climático (RIOCC), cuya creación se estableció en el IV Foro Iberoamericano de Ministros de Medio Ambiente, (Cascais, Portugal, 2004)), tiene como principal objetivo conocer mejor las prioridades, retos y experiencias de los países iberoamericanos en materia de cambio climático mediante un diálogo fluido y permanente.
La gobernanza de la RIOCC cuenta con un respaldo ministerial que opera por consenso, con España en la Presidencia y una Vicepresidencia de carácter voluntario y anual que ocupa otro país de la región. La Oficina Española de Cambio Climá…
Objetivo general El curso busca que los/as participantes adquieran conocimientos básicos sobre el proceso de preparación y evaluación social de proyectos de inversión pública en el marco de los Sistemas Nacionales de Inversión Pública en los países de la región.
Este curso introduce al alumno/a a la gestión de la inversión pública, especialmente en el uso de la evaluación socioeconómica y sus diversas aplicaciones y derivaciones.
Objetivos de aprendizaje
Comprender el marco conceptual de la inversión pública.
Identificar y analizar problemas como punto de partida para la for…
El presente documento constituye una recopilación de las evaluaciones de los programas de reducción de la pobreza y precariedad del hábitat y fue presentado en 2006 en el III Foro Urbano Mundial. Estas evaluaciones se realizaron a través de un cuestionario base distribuido a los países de la región y en el que se incluyeron los aspectos prioritarios del Plan de Acción Regional para los Asentamientos Humanos adoptado en 1995 y actualizado en el 2001 por los países de la Región. El análisis de la aplicación de estos programas, a fin de incorporar esas experiencias en el Programa Regional de Vivi…
Trinidad and Tobago is heavily dependent on its oil and gas sector to support its economy and society. However, given the challenge of climate change, small economies of scale, and increased economic, social and environmental vulnerability, strategies are needed to ensure long-term sustainable development. A key aspect to be considered is the greater potential for the implementation of energy efficiency measurements, which would allow for energy security in the long term, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and increased revenue and cost savings.
In this report, the methodology of the Ener…
This paper brings to the attention of member countries of the Caribbean Development
and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) resolutions adopted by past sessions of the Committee,
since 2000, and the process of their implementation. Resolutions 55 to 66 for the period 2000-
2006 have been extracted from the reports of the eighteenth to twenty first sessions of the CDCC
Also included for the information of member countries are selected resolutions recently
adopted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and other
organs of the United Nations. These resolutions greatly inf…
The Energy Division of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources of Barbados developed a database that allows for analysis of energy efficiency indicators and the impact of policies on trends in these indicators for different sectors of the country. This data will form the baseline of the energy efficiency campaign launched by the Energy Division and evidence-based policy development. In addition, this exercise is expected to strengthen the institutional capacity to collect, collate and analyse energy efficiency data.
This report analyses the information collected for the main sectors of the …
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…