Sustainable Development

Signatory Countries to the Escazú Agreement Call for Working Together to Defend Fundamental Rights and Foster Sustainable Development in the Region

December 10, 2020

The second meeting of the signatory countries to Latin America and the Caribbean’s first environmental treaty is being held virtually on December 9-10, under the auspices of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda. (December 9, 2020) Representatives of the signatory countries to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in […]

CDEMA Launches New Caribbean Risk Information System Platform

November 13, 2020

Bridgetown, Barbados November 12th, 2020 – The Caribbean Risk Information System (CRIS) platform was officially launched on November 12, 2020, by CDEMA, to fulfil its mandate of enhanced knowledge management in the Caribbean. The CRIS was designed to serve as the ‘one stop shop’ for hosting a wealth of information, contributing to the evidenced based decision […]

Sustainable Development Movement Summit Opens Doors for Caribbean Entrepreneurs

September 30, 2020

Entrepreneurs, business leaders, senior government officials, members of civil society and other influencers from the Caribbean, and around the world, assembled in their numbers to attend the virtual OECS Republic Bank Sustainable Development Movement (SDM) 2020 Summit from September 23-24, 2020. At the Summit’s opening ceremony, Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General, OECS, captured the spirit […]

To Confront the Climate Change Emergency and Rethink the Post-COVID Recovery, We Must Urgently Move Towards a New, More Sustainable and Egalitarian Development Pattern

June 19, 2020

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. (Santiago, Chile, June 18, 2020) The environmental impact of the prevailing development pattern endangers the well-being of much of humankind and, in some cases, its survival. That is why it […]

Biodiversity – A Time to Collaborate for Nature

June 17, 2020

Nature provides us with clean air, purified water, sources of food and medicine, and beautiful spaces for recreation. It has protected us from zoonotic (animal to human) diseases like Covid-19 throughout history. When natural habitats are destroyed, pathogens like the coronavirus are displaced from their natural hosts and enter the human population. The ongoing pandemic […]

Alicia Bárcena Calls for Rethinking the Model and Consolidating the Economic, Social and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development so as to Leave No One Behind

May 19, 2020

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary met with members of civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean, where she stressed the region’s commitment to implementing the 2030 Agenda along with the importance of fulfilling it despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (May 19, 2020) The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has exposed the economic model’s structural problems […]

Cabinet Approves Appointment of Seven Sub-Committees as Part of Task Force for Rebuilding Grenadian Economy

April 30, 2020

April 29, 2020 – The Cabinet has approved the appointment of seven sub-committees as part of the Task Force for Rebuilding the Grenadian Economy. The sub-committees have been identified based on the productive sectors and Cabinet has also approved the appointment of chairpersons for each sub-committee. They are as follows: Tourism and Citizenship by Investment […]

Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General

The World Must Not Sleep-Walk Into Another Debt Crisis

October 18, 2019

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to weave the possibility of a nightmare debt crisis that could be worse than any previously experienced. Global borrowing is now at the highest levels since the 1950s – and history suggests we should take this as a warning that a debt […]

CDU Policy Paper Competition 2019

July 29, 2019

The Caribbean Democrat Union (CDU) held its second annual Policy Paper Competition which ran from 26th June to 18th July 2019. A total of twelve (12) policy papers were submitted from CDU sister party members from across the region. The topics for this year’s competition included: Gender Equality, a pre-requisite for the achievement of the […]

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