CEPAL urges countries to implement a post-pandemic economic recovery
The agreement will be established on environmentally sustainable bases and with equality for the benefit of all
This Monday, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has launched a proposal for the benefit of economic recovery in Latin American and Caribbean countries, based on environmentally sustainable bases and where equality prevails.
In this regard, Bárcena urged nations to work in new internal and international political coalitions where cooperations contribute in an unprecedented way in order to sustain a satisfactory change for the benefit of the population’s lifestyle.
The senior official intervened as a special guest at the XXII Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, where she assured: “The scientific community has constantly warned us about the seriousness of the environmental issue. We have exceeded critical planetary thresholds exceeding the capacity to load of the natural base that sustains us.”
Ecosystem in decline
At the event organized by the Government of Barbados, the executive stated that “47 % of natural ecosystems are deteriorated, 25 % of species are in danger of extinction and, perhaps the most worrying thing, is the destruction of the ecological integrity of key systems that puts the diet of the future at risk.”
According to the multiple impacts generated by the pandemic on a global scale, Bárcena reaffirmed his commitment to comply with the call of the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, that financing be an option for adaptation which is increased by 20 % to 50 %.
K. Villarroel
Source: Finanzasdigital
