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9 de October de 2018 | Press Release

CEPAL y FAO se unen para acelerar el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en las zonas rurales de América Latina y el Caribe
Considerando que casi 8 de cada 10 indicadores de la Agenda 2030 están vinculados a las sociedades rurales, ambos organismos trabajarán en conjunto temas de migración, erradicación de la pobreza rural y la lucha contra el cambio climático.
20 August 2018 | Press Release

Humanity Has Exceeded Four of the Planet’s Nine Ecological Boundaries: ECLAC
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, gave a keynote speech today at the Ibero-American University, Mexico City, where she warned that the development model is tapped out and called for creating a culture of equality with sustainability.
1 August 2018 | Press Release

Experts Stress the Urgency of Decarbonizing Economies to Stem the Ecological Debt and Concretize the Environmental Big Push
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, inaugurated the First Peer-to-Peer Dialogue of Euroclima+ Countries.
11 May 2018 | Press Release

ECLAC Renews its Calling to Serve as a Pertinent and Effective Instrument for Regional Development
Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the regional commission, and Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, closed the thirty-seventh session of ECLAC held in Havana, Cuba.
9 May 2018 | Press Release

Countries Highlight ECLAC’s Leadership for the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean
On the second day of its 37th session, ECLAC presented a report on activities carried out in the last biennial, as well as the projected work agenda through 2020.
26 April 2018 | Press Release

Caribbean Development Roundtable Brings Together Ministers to Discuss Economic Growth and Climate Resilience
The meeting convened by ECLAC and hosted by the Government of Saint Lucia, took place today in Gros Islet.
13 December 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls on the Region to Change the Development Paradigm to Confront Climate Change, Taking Ownership of the 2030 Agenda
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the regional organization, led the launch of a report on the economics of climate change that was commented upon by Marcelo Mena, Chile’s Minister of the Environment, and Andrés Rebolledo, the country’s Energy Minister.
24 October 2017 | Press Release

Criteria for Access to Concessional Financing Must Change to Support Caribbean Countries with their Reconstruction
ECLAC’s debt relief proposal for the countries most affected by recent hurricanes was presented by Alicia Bárcena, the organization’s Executive Secretary, at a high-level ECOSOC meeting in New York.
27 September 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Underscores Strategic Potential of Triangular Cooperation to Give the Region’s Economies an Environmental Big Push
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, made a presentation at the IV Regional Conference on Prospects for Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Lima, Peru.
20 July 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Met with Caribbean Ambassadors to Evaluate the Subregion’s Priorities regarding the 2030 Agenda
Alicia Bárcena encouraged Caribbean countries to present their Voluntary National Reviews on the Sustainable Development Goals in future sessions of the High-Level Political Forum, which is held each year in New York.
12 July 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Proposes that Caribbean Focus Efforts on Gender Equality, Climate Change and Debt Relief to Meet 2030 Agenda

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the organization, presented the outlook for the subregion during an event held in New York in the framework of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum.
1 de February de 2017 | Press Release

CEPAL: Existen opciones para abordar al mismo tiempo los retos económicos, sociales y ambientales de la región
En el programa “Horizontes CEPAL”, Joseluis Samaniego, Director de la División de Desarrollo Sostenible y Asentamientos Humanos, analiza los efectos del cambio climático y las alternativas al estilo de desarrollo actual.
26 October 2016 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena Calls on CELAC and the EU to Take Advantage of the Digital Economy, Innovation and the Fight Against Climate Change as Drivers Towards New Development Paths
In the framework of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of CELAC and the European Union, which was held in Santo Domingo, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary called for harnessing complementarities among the two regions with a view to complying with the 2030 Agenda.
18 October 2016 | Press Release

At Habitat III, ECLAC Urges Harnessing the Data Revolution to Drive Sustainable Urban Development
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, attended a side event at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
9 de September de 2016 | Press Release

CEPAL: TIC’s vector indispensable para un cambio estructural progresivo con miras al cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030
El Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto del organismo regional, Antonio Prado, expuso hoy en el marco de la Sexta Semana de las Normas Verdes que se realizó en Montevideo, Uruguay.
26 August 2016 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena: Participation by Civil Society is Fundamental to Achieving Better Governance of Natural Resources

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary spoke at a meeting of Open Government Partnership in Mexico City.
2 August 2016 | Press Release

Climate Change Threatens the Basis of Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Agriculture
According to a report by FAO, ECLAC and ALADI, climate change will affect crop yields, local economies and food security in Northeastern Brazil, Central America and parts of the Andean region.
20 July 2016 | Press Release

Worldwide Extraction of Materials Triples in Four Decades, Intensifying Climate Change and Air Pollution

Richest countries consume on average 10 times as many materials as world’s poorest, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme-hosted International Resource Panel (IRP).
17 May 2016 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena Presents the Region’s Challenges Regarding the 2030 Agenda in the Run-up to ECLAC’s Session
The Executive Secretary was one of the main speakers at a regional seminar organized by the European Commission in Havana, Cuba.
22 April 2016 | Press Release

"We Are in a Race against Time," Says Ban, as Leaders Sign Landmark Paris Climate Accord
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Member States to move quickly to join the accord at the national level so that it can enter into force as early as possible.

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