ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented a new book today that exhaustively reviews the effects of climate change in the region and the policies addressing it.
Latin America and the Caribbean is endowed with abundant natural resources, but these are distributed unevenly. ECLAC supports effective and democratic governance of natural resources to achieve the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
"A medida que crece nuestra población, debemos reconocer que nuestro consumo de los recursos del planeta es insostenible", dice en su mensaje el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon.