ECLAC to Present New Data on Climate Change Impact on Region's Economies
The study, which will be launched in Cancun on December 8, outlines the potential economic costs in percentages of GDP, in several possible scenarios of rising planetary temperatures.
While Latin America and the Caribbean contribute little to global warming, it suffers from its consequences disproportionately. The magnitude of the impact of this phenomenon on the economies of the region is analyzed in the most recent ECLAC report, which will be presented on December 8 at the Cancun Summit.
In the study The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Synthesis 2010, the United Nations Regional Commission details, based on its own national and subregional research, the potential economic effects according to several possible scenarios of rising planetary temperature and presents options for action to avoid further damage to the region.
The document will be presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at a side event to the XVI Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (known as COP 16), which is being held in the Mexican resort of Cancun.
The report was prepared in close collaboration with the governments of Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and a wide network of academic and research institutions.
The issue of climate change is at the heart of UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's agenda alongside the Millennium Development Goals.
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