The National Implementation Meeting on the Escazú Agreement took place in Mexico City on 11 and 12 March 2020.…
El Encuentro Nacional por la Implementación del Acuerdo de Escazú, tuvo lugar en Ciudad de México los días 11 y 12 de marzo de 2020.…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, reafirmó hoy la urgencia de transitar hacia un modelo de desarrollo más sostenible que permita aumentar la productividad y alcanzar la igualdad en los países de la región, durante la primera Conferencia sobre Evidencia Científica y Políticas Públicas, Cambio Climático en América Latina y el Caribe, celebrada en Santiago, Chile. La actividad fue co-organizada por la CEPAL a través del programa Euroclima+, proyecto financiado por la Unión Europea, y en el marco del apoyo a la Presidencia de …
ECLAC’s Office in Bogotá, in the framework of the project Territorial linkages for inclusive development in Colombia, carried out three events among different actors to promote knowledge and dialogue. In these spaces, participants identified sustainable initiatives that connect rural-urban spaces, and they explored what kinds of ties, relations, interdependencies, alliances and networks exist in these territories, along with the reasons for their emergence and ways of further strengthening them. The National Seminar on Territorial Linkages – held in Bogotá on August 29-30, 2019 – drew the part…
La Oficina de la CEPAL en Bogotá, en el marco del proyecto “Vínculos rurales urbanos y tejidos territoriales para el desarrollo inclusivo de Colombia”, llevó a cabo tres eventos entre diferentes actores para promover el conocimiento y el diálogo. En estos espacios se identificaron iniciativas sostenibles que conectan espacios rurales-urbanos y se indagó acerca del tipo de vínculos, relaciones, interdependencias, alianzas y redes que existen en los territorios, así como de las razones por las que han surgido y de la forma de potenciar su fortalecimiento. El Seminario Nacional Tejidos Territoria…
O escritório da CEPAL em Bogotá, no âmbito do projeto “Vínculos urbano-rurais e tecidos territoriais para o desenvolvimento inclusivo da Colômbia”, realizou três eventos entre diferentes atores para promover o conhecimento e o diálogo. Nesses espaços foram identificadas iniciativas sustentáveis que conectam espaços rurais e urbanos e indagou-se acerca do tipo de vínculos, relações, interdependências, alianças e redes que existem nos territórios, bem como das razões pelas quais surgiram e a forma de potencializar seu fortalecimento. No Seminário Nacional Tecidos Territoriais, realizado em Bogot…
Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, con ocasión del segundo aniversario de la adopción del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe Miércoles 4 de marzo, 2020 CEPAL Adriana Murillo, Embajadora de Costa Rica en Chile, David Boyd, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente Andrea Sanhueza, representante electa del público, Embajadoras, embajadores y representantes de los países de América Latina y el Caribe,…
Today, March 4th, marks two years since the adoption of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, better known as the Escazú Agreement – the region’s first environmental treaty and the first in the world to contain specific provisions regarding human rights defenders in environmental matters. On this very special day, Antigua and Barbuda deposited the instrument of ratification in a ceremony held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Of the 22 countries that have signed the Agreement …
Hoy 4 de marzo se cumplen dos años desde la adopción de Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe, más conocido como el Acuerdo de Escazú, el primer tratado ambiental de la región y el primero en el mundo en contener disposiciones específicas sobre defensores de derechos humanos en asuntos ambientales. En este día tan especial, Antigua y Barbuda hizo depósito del instrumento de ratificación en una ceremonia realizada en la Sede de las Naciones Unidas, en Nueva York. De los 22 países que a la fe…
The Executive Secretariat of the Council of Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (Spanish acronym: SE-COSEFIN), along with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) officially launched the project Capacity Building for the Incorporation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation to Climate Change in Public Investment in COSEFIN/SICA Member Countries in San Salvador, El Salvador. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction of losses an…
La Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo de Ministros de Hacienda o Finanzas de Centroamérica, Panamá y República Dominicana (SE-COSEFIN), junto con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), y la Cooperación Suiza de América Central realizaron en San Salvador, El Salvador el lanzamiento oficial del proyecto denominado: Fortalecimiento de capacidades para la incorporación de la reducción de riesgo de desastres y la adaptación sostenible e incluyente al cambio climático de la inversión pública en los países miembros del COSEFIN/SICA.…
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) agenda for sustainable development has as its foundation the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA 1994), the Mauritius Strategy for Further Implementation of the BPoA (MSI 2005) and more recently the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway 2014). These agreements representing 25 years of continual focus are the SIDS sustainable development blue prints. With the objectives of positioning and maintaining a strategic SIDS focus across sustainable development agendas, this paper re-examines the Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Caribbean De…
The Caribbean region is prone to disasters due to its geographic location. The exposures and resulting impacts of these disasters are aggravated by persistent social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities. Compounded with the region’s current dependence on imported fossil fuels and financial constraints, this study seeks to stimulate discussions around the complementarity of energy with every societal sector as well as its links with disaster risk management, and promote government-wide management that integrates energy policies, disaster management and climate change impacts.…
This document presents the consensus recommendations for the inclusion of a human rights-based approach in environmental impact assessments of mining projects by the mining companies and human rights thematic group of the Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsman (FIO by its Spanish acronym). These recommendations were validated by the group in the meeting that took place on September 2nd and 3rd 2019 in the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), within the framework of the activities of the Regional cooperation for the sustainable mana…
This study investigates the role that information and communication technologies (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) are playing in supporting sustainable development across islands in these countries. Focusing on the areas of health, education and governance, the study uses the multi-island countries of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands as case studies to explore inter-island differences in ICT and KM capacity and the scope for strengthening this capacity. It concludes with a series of recommendations for governments of Caribbean multi-island countries w…