Alicia Bárcena participated this week in various meetings related to climate change, indigenous peoples, financing for development, the post-2015 agenda and statistics.
The Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, said in a statement that the economic costs of climate change could total between 1.5 % and 5 % of the annual GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the case that the temperature rises an additional 2.5 °C.