Sesión 1, La tragedia ambiental de América.

Environmental monitoring and firefighting saw budgets cut by over a third in two years; agencies endured massive deregulation, with nearly 600 rule changes aimed at undermining conservation, say critics.

En Ecuador, históricamente el cuidado del ambiente no ha sido una prioridad y eso se ha reflejado en los últimos cuatro años de gobierno.

Si bien México ya diseñó la ruta para suprimir el uso de glifosato en 2024, aún le queda un extenso camino para eliminar otros agrotóxicos igualmente peligrosos como el Paraquat y Dicamba.

In his keynote lecture, President Fernández affirmed that in a globalized world where the need for multilateralism is becoming ever more critical, Latin America and the Caribbean must be a united region in order to be capable of handling future challenges.

La deforestación ha acabado con más de medio millón de hectáreas de la Selva Maya, uno de los bosques tropicales más extenso de América, advierte un reporte del Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza, WWF.

At the 60th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, delegations will report on the progress made in the implementation of the Santiago Commitment, taking into account the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In addition, a special regional consultation session will be held prior to the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

 Degradación de los suelos, deforestación acelerada, contaminación en las grandes ciudades, riesgo de extinción de más de un millón de especies y cambio climático: estos son tan solo algunos de los problemas que enfrenta la región América Latina y el Caribe de cara a la crisis ambiental por la que está atravesando el planeta.

Bridgetown Barbados, February 2, 2021 - The Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today signed the Barbados Declaration, in which they called for the integration of environmental issues to be placed at the heart of the region’s COVID-19 recovery strategies, with economic reactivation based on social inclusion, low carbon and resilient economies, and the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

Bridgetown, Barbados, 2 February 2020 – Latin America and the Caribbean today adopted regional plan containing 10 actions to promote the recovery of terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems in the next decade.

Nicolás Maduro’s reforms will deepen Venezuela’s oil dependency, slow regional efforts to decarbonize, and shift oil profits to transnational oil companies.