United Nations
Environment
ECLAC has addressed environmental issues comprehensively, by questioning development styles, providing information on the socioeconomic impacts of failure to treat environmental protection as a central pillar of sustainable development, performing assessments of environmental performance, proposing economic policies that include environmental considerations and promoting societies that are better informed and more participatory with regard to environmental issues.
Activities
Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, thereby leaving a legacy for future youth generations.
Heading to COP 30: NDC 3.0, investments and financing
The event brings together representatives from ministries of environment, planning, and finance, along with actors from the financial and private sectors. Its goal is to design roadmaps toward more ambitious climate goals in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of COP30. This space aims to foster international cooperation, review lessons learned, and explore financing opportunities to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), ensuring socio-economic co-benefits and resilience to climate change.
Turning Potentialities into Reality: The Importance of the Legislative Branch in Driving Decarbonization and Technological Advancement in the Productive Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.
OPCC Side Event at the Legislators’ Pavillion, located at Pavilion G22b, Blue Zone. There won’t be live broadcast.
Turning Potentialities into Reality: The Importance of the Legislative Branch in Driving Decarbonization and Technological Advancement in the Productive Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.
OPCC Side Event at the Brazil’s Pavillion, located at Office E27, Pavilion D1, Blue Zone. There will no be live broadcast.
News
Experts call for debt restructuring and new financial instruments to tackle climate change and nature loss in ‘critical decade of action’
The threat of global recession and cuts to overseas aid make it more vital than ever to tackle ‘triple crisis’ of indebtedness, climate impacts and nature loss, says landmark report. IMF and World Bank urged to reform their debt sustainability analysis and help developing countries restructure their debts to support climate-resilient and nature- smart growth plans within ‘critical decade of action’. Developed countries, development banks and private sector urged to develop innovative new financing instruments for green investments in light of recent global upheaval.
International Mother Earth Day: ECLAC and Uruguay Reaffirm their Commitment to Environmental Democracy and Implementation of the Escazú Agreement
Today marks four years since Latin America and the Caribbean’s first environmental agreement entered into force.
Forum on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Example of Multilateralism in Action
Five years before the deadline for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda, delegates agreed that the region must step up its efforts to move towards achieving the SDGs, through collaboration between multiple stakeholders and a focus on managing the transformations.
