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Latin America and the Caribbean Moves Forward on a Shared Position for Building a Sustainable, Just and Inclusive Marine Economy

13 May 2025 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean is home to 47 of the world’s 258 marine ecoregions, and the vast majority of our countries (23) have more marine territory than land area. On average, 50% of the region’s territory corresponds to the ocean. In the Caribbean islands, this proportion rises to 91% and is nearly 99% in some States such as Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. That is why the region is positioned as a crucial strategic actor in the marine life agenda and why it has a historic opportunity to build a sustainable, just and inclusive marine economy. This was according to the participants in …

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

29 June 2023 | Announcement

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 the Caribbean, in which it examines the role of the region’s lithium-producing countries (mainly Argentina, Bolivia and Chile) in the global value chain of lithium-ion batteries (the main use of lithium currently), as well as the governance, regulatory and fiscal regimes that determine how the exploitation of that mineral functions in the “lithium triangle” countries. The r…

Issuance of Sustainability-linked Bonds by Latin American Companies in International Markets Grows Exponentially in 2021

30 March 2022 | News

The use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) instruments by debt issuers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in international markets has grown very rapidly in the last two years. In particular, in 2021 there was an exponential growth in the international issuance of sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) by companies in the region, according to a new Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) report published by the Commission’s Office in Washington DC. LAC ESG International Bond Issuance by Type of Instruments (US$ Million) Source: authors’ elaboration…

Latin America and the Caribbean Has All the Right Conditions to Become a Renewable Energy Hub with Great Potential in Green Hydrogen

22 June 2021 | News

The renewable energy sector is a powerful engine of growth, job creation and innovation. We must start by giving access to electricity to the 20 million Latin Americans who still do not have it, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), indicated today during a high-level panel held in the framework of Latin America Energy Week, organized by the international company Siemens Energy. ECLAC’s highest authority participated in the session of the event entitled “Energizing society to ensure successful and sustainable growth,” the c…

The Time is Ripe for a Global Tax Agreement on Extractive Industries: ECLAC

25 May 2021 | News

“It is imperative to introduce more progressive and transparent fiscal regimes; the time is ripe for a global tax agreement on extractive industries,” Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today during a high-level, virtual international event convened by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres. ECLAC’s highest authority was one of the main speakers at the High-Level Global Roundtable on Extractive Industries as an Engine for Sustainable Development, convened by the United Nations in the framework of th…

ECLAC to Hold Governance Week on Natural Resources and Infrastructure

2 November 2016 | Announcement

Some 15 ministers and vice-ministers responsible for energy, mining, infrastructure, environment and natural resources from 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions of the world, along with authorities, business leaders and international experts, are to meet at ECLAC Headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 7 to 11 November to examine ECLAC’s proposals and lines of action in the area of natural resources and infrastructure within the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This high-level gathering, which has been styled …

The Importance of Logistical Infrastructure for the Sustainable Exploitation of Natural Resources

21 June 2016 | News

During the first decade of this century, the rise in the prices of natural resources fueled the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. However, the region has been unable to generate a virtuous process to sustainably take advantage of this wealth. For this reason, a new governance of natural resources is needed that ensures that the benefits of their exploitation are sustainable and that they are transformed into a concrete contribution to full development, helping to reduce existing inequalities, ECLAC indicates in its book Towards a New Governance of Natural Resources in Latin America…

Natural Resources Governance and Energy Efficiency Will Be Analyzed at Two Events

1 September 2014 | Announcement

Authorities from the region's countries and experts at international organizations will meet on November 26 at the Commission's headquarters in Santiago, Chile, at the high-level roundtable A Latin American view on the governance of natural resources for equality, where they will discuss and explore in depth the current paradigm for exploiting these resources. In recent years, Latin American and Caribbean countries have lived through a period of high prices for their natural resources, but the region has not taken advantage of the investment potential of these surpluses to move towards develop…

ECLAC Promotes Better Governance of Natural Resources to Maximize their Contribution to Regional Development

5 March 2014 | News

In a new publication, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) poses the need to promote better governance of natural resources in the region to maximize their contribution to development with equality and sustainability, as well as to foster the long-term structural change associated with innovation and technological development that reduces dependence on extractive sectors. The report, entitled Natural resources: status and trends towards a regional development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, is an ECLAC contribution to the debates inside …

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