Welcome remarks by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Port of Spain, 5-7 May 2015
Excellencies, academic staff, ladies and gentlemen,
This is my first time in the Caribbean and it is a pleasure to be in Port of Spain and especially at the celebrated University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Today, the Caribbean, like Latin America, is facing a future fraught with challenges and uncertainty. It is unclear whether the models and strategies that have d…
The current energy systems within Curaçao depend primarily on high cost, imported fossil fuels, and typically constitute power sectors that are characterized by small, inefficient generation plants which result in high energy prices. As a consequence of its dependence on external fuel supplies, Curaçao is extremely vulnerable to international oil price shocks, which can impact on economic planning and foreign direct investment within their industrial sectors. The ability of the successive governments to source capital for economic stimulation and social investment is therefore significantly ch…
Climate change poses special challenges for Caribbean decision makers related to the uncertainties inherent in future climate projections and the complex linkages between climate change, physical and biological systems,
and socioeconomic sectors. At present, however, the Caribbean subregion lacks the adaptive capacity needed
to address these challenges.
The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the coastal and
marine sector in the Caribbean until 2050. It aims both to provide Caribbean decision makers with cutting edge
information on the vulnerability to …
This study assesses the potential economic impact of climate change on coastal human settlements in the Caribbean, with specific reference to Barbados, and evaluates the costs and benefits of undertaking various adaptation strategies. The aim is to assist Caribbean territories in developing the strategies and capacity needed to deal with the potential impact of severe weather events that are anticipated to occur with increased frequency and intensity as a result of climate change.
Some of the key anticipated manifestations of climate change for the Caribbean include elevated air and sea-surfac…
Climate change is a continuous process that began centuries ago. Today the pace of change has increased with greater rapidity because of global warming induced by anthropogenically generated greenhouse gases (GHG). Failure to effectively deal with the adverse outcomes can easily disrupt plans for sustainable economic development.
Because of the failure of export agriculture over the last several decades, to provide the economic stimuli needed to promote economic growth and development, Jamaica, like many other island states in the Caribbean subregion, has come to rely on tourism as an instrume…
20 Abr 2023, 04:30 - 14:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC, from its acronym in Spanish) is an initiative carried out jointly by parliamentary leaders from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with the aim of constituting a shared information tool on the state of environmental legislation and parliamentary treatment in the region.
The Summit represents an opportunity for dialogue among legislators from LAC with the objective to strengthen climate ambition in the region. The main objectives of the Summit include:
Presentation o…
Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…
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…
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…
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 information here represents a compilation of existing and ongoing regional and
national climate modelling studies that could be useful in the execution of the regional project
The Economics of Climate Change in Caribbean. The report is mainly focused on the sustainable
regional efforts that represent opportunities for further developments in climate change scenarios. It
describes the different techniques that have been used to model changes in temperature and precipitation
in the Caribbean and compares the outputs of these models. Essentially, temperatures are expected to
increase while pr…
The paper highlights several key economic issues of the climate change debate. Section I
states the need to adopt a precautionary approach to the climate change challenge in the face of uncertainty; while Section II illustrates the key economic drivers of climate change. Section III
provides an analysis of the economic gains and losses posed by climate change and the
inequalities implied by the regional and sectoral distribution of these gains and losses; and Section IV explores potential economic tools for addressing climate change, namely emissions taxes, cap and trade regimes, command and…
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 …
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) lanzará un primer panorama sobre la implementación del ODS 14 en América Latina y el Caribe. Específicamente, buscará identificar el principales avances, desarrollos, cambios en los marcos legales e institucionales, incluyendo las brechas y barreras.
/ The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is launching a first regional outlook on SDG14 implementation in LAC. Specifically, it seeks to identify the main developments, advances, changes in legal and institutional frameworks, including gaps and barriers.…
3 Dic 2023 - 09:30
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Evento (Conferencias y reuniones de órganos subsidiarios)
El Acuerdo de Escazú se destacará en los siguientes eventos organizados el marco de la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático:
Domingo 3 de diciembre de 2023
13:15-14:45 horas Dubái, Side Event Room 2 (Zona azul) / What Human Rights at 75 means for Climate Justice Now. Organizado por ACNUDH, PNUMA, PNUD, UNFPA, FAO, UNICEF, WHO, ONU Mujeres, UNECE, OIM, UNODC, OIT, CEPAL, ACNUR. Evento en inglés con transmisión en vivo.
16:30-17:45 horas Dubái, Pabellón de Brasil (Zona azul) / Justicia climática en la defensa de los te…
El Acuerdo de Escazú se destacará en los siguientes eventos organizados el marco de la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático:
Domingo 3 de diciembre de 2023
13:15-14:45 horas Dubái, Side Event Room 2 (Zona azul) / What Human Rights at 75 means for Climate Justice Now. Organizado por ACNUDH, PNUMA, PNUD, UNFPA, FAO, UNICEF, WHO, ONU Mujeres, UNECE, OIM, UNODC, OIT, CEPAL, ACNUR. Evento en inglés con transmisión en vivo.
16:30-17:45 horas Dubái, Pabellón de Brasil (Zona azul) / Justicia climática en la de…
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(21 de enero, 2013) Connotados economistas de América Latina y Europa se dieron cita en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, para debatir sobre las oportunidades y los desafíos que presenta la relación birregional en el actual escenario de turbulencias internacionales.
El evento se realiza en el marco de la I Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños y la Unión Europea (CELAC-UE), que reunirá a representantes de 60 países los días 26 y 27 de enero en la capital chilena.
El Foro Económico América L…
Caribbean people have always had a special relationship with the ocean and coast, with most of the population, infrastructure, and economic activities located along the coastal zone in Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS). Marine and coastal ecosystems provide employment, recreation, livelihoods, and ensure food security for
millions of people across the subregion in the areas of fisheries, tourism, transportation, and energy.…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, instó hoy a los países de la región a impulsar nuevas estrategias fiscales y una mayor cooperación internacional ante las asimetrías crecientes para financiar un gran impulso para la sostenibilidad, durante el Foro de Ministros de Medio Ambiente que se realiza en Costa Rica.
Alicia Bárcena fue la ponente principal del Diálogo de Alto Nivel “Acelerando las Finanzas”, que contó con las ponencias de Sonia Muñoz, Jefa de la División del Caribe del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI); Andrew St…
(14 de octubre, 2011) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participó en Abu Dhabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, en la Cumbre sobre la Agenda Global 2011, que reúne a representantes del sector académico, empresarial, gubernamental y de la sociedad civil de todo el mundo.
Este espacio de debate, creado en 2008 por el Foro Económico Mundial, congrega anualmente a los miembros de la Red de Consejos de la Agenda Global (Network of Global Agenda Councils) para intercambiar ideas sobre temas clave como la estabilidad financiera, la segur…