Latin America

ECLAC Will Present Special Report on the Opportunities and Challenges that Lithium Poses for Latin America and the Caribbean

July 5, 2023

The new document will be released at a press conference by the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, on Thursday, July 6. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, July 6 a new special report entitled Lithium extraction and industrialization: Opportunities and challenges for Latin America and […]

Joint Communiqué: EU27 – Latin America and Caribbean Informal Ministerial Meeting

December 15, 2020

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries of the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) today met in an informal Ministerial Meeting. This meeting was hosted by the Foreign Minister of Germany, Heiko Maas, for the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU, and chaired by the EU High […]

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Define a New Digital Agenda in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the VII Ministerial Conference on the Information Society

November 20, 2020

The meeting, organized by ECLAC and the Government of Ecuador, will take place virtually from Monday, November 23 to Thursday, November 26, 2020. (November 20, 2020) Ministers and other high-level authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as specialists, will participate on November 23-26 in the Seventh Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, where they […]

ECLAC Calls for Creating Participatory Policies, Based on Evidence and Open Information, to Tackle Air Pollution

June 4, 2019

On the occasion of World Environment Day 2019, the central theme of which is air pollution, the United Nations organization calls on Latin American and Caribbean States to advance on coordinated action at a local, national, regional and international level to address this problem. (June 4, 2019) The serious episodes of atmospheric pollution that Latin America […]

IICA Praised by OAS Member States

May 20, 2019

At the OAS, Member States praise IICA’s contributions to economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean Following the presentation made by the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) on his agency’s work in 2018, the Ambassadors and High-level Representatives to the Organization of American States (OAS) of […]

Calls for New Narrative on International Cooperation

June 14, 2018

Alicia Bárcena Calls for a New Narrative on International Cooperation for Latin American and Caribbean Development around the 2030 Agenda During a seminar organized by the European Union in Panama, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary emphasized the role of international cooperation in supporting countries in transition. (June 13, 2018) During a high-level meeting in Panama organized by […]

ECLAC Calls on Latin America and the Caribbean to Reinvigorate Integration and Bolster Intraregional Trade

March 16, 2018

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2018, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. (March 16, 2018) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called on the region’s countries to reinvigorate the process of integration and bolster intraregional […]

Countries of the Region Advocate for Progress on Social Investment in Light of Economic Situation and Inequality Gaps

November 3, 2016

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, held its first meeting on November 1 in Santo Domingo. (November 1, 2016) Social development ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean met today in the Dominican Republic to acknowledge the importance of safeguarding social investment and […]

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