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Climate change
Climate change is the planet-wide variation in the Earth's climate owing to natural and man-made causes. Human actions are the main contributors to climate change and include the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial, agricultural and transport activities. One consequence of these actions is that the Sun's heat is trapped in the atmosphere, a process that we know as the "greenhouse effect". The gases responsible for this phenomenon include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane.
Activities
Regional Dialogues on External Financing and Climate-Resilient Development
Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional discussion.
Regional Blue Talk: Latin America and the Caribbean On the Road to the…
The Regional Blue Talk is a preparatory dialogue space for the UNOC3, where experts, government representatives, and key stakeholders can identify regional and subregional priorities, specificities, and challenges, share experiences, and formulate recommendations that contribute to building a shared regional perspective.
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.
News
Countries Urge for Strengthening International Development Cooperation by Promoting Innovative Mechanisms that Go Beyond Traditional Graduation Criteria
At the closing segment of the Second Session of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation, authorities agreed that measuring cooperation among developing countries is key to enhancing their role on the global stage, increasing the efficacy of their public policies and making progress on fulfillment of the SDGs.
International Cooperation is Essential for Building a More Productive, Inclusive, Sustainable, Just and Resilient Future in Latin America and the Caribbean
Today authorities inaugurated the Second Session of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation.
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.
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