ECLAC’s Executive Secretary gave a keynote lecture on the climate emergency in Latin America and the Caribbean organized by Oxford University’s International Development Department.
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Alicia Bárcena: The Current Health and Climate Crises are the Result of an Unsustainable Development Model The current health and climate crises are the result of an unsustainable development model. Both are global public ills. They arise from the destruction of nature and require collective, simultaneous action along with international cooperation, underscored Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during a virtual keynote lecture organized by the Oxford University International Development Department (United Kingdom).
The current development model, explained Bárcena, is associated with, among other things, a falling rate of production and trade growth, as well as decoupling from the financial system; higher inequality and persistence of a culture of privilege; large negative externalities, as well as carbon emissions; and systemic
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Fast-tracking Caribbean COVID-19 recovery and resilience
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COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in 2021. The BBC has reported that as of 1 February 2021, more than 100 million people have been infected with the virus, 2.2 million people have died across nearly 200 countries. There are still over 382,000 new cases every day. Although both rich and poor countries have faced the full wrath of the pandemic, the difference is, the developed countries are buffered by their wealth enabling them to recover faster than anyone else,
writes Deodat Maharaj.
On the other hand, we in the Caribbean continue to take a battering, much like our shorelines during a hurricane. But, unlike a Hurricane Irma or Maria, which created unprecedented destruction in a matter of hours in 2017, with Covid-19, soon it will be almost one year that this pandemic has been inflicting continuous hardship on the lives and livelihoods of our people.