A COVID-19 vaccine will keep people feeling healthy and safe, but we cannot forget to vaccinate our economies as well. Sustainability will be a key component to building back better in the region’s economic recovery. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is home to 8% of global population but accounts for 40% of global coronavirus-related deaths. The disproportionate impact … [Read more...] about Sustainability, the vaccine for Latin America and the Caribbean economies
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Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure As Components of Economic Recovery
COVID-19 is not helping to curb climate change despite a moderate decrease in pollution due to less industrial activity and transportation, but it allows us to rethink energy policy decisions that will have a relevant, decades-long impact on the climate, and should help mitigate the problem. With the news of blue skies and animals reemerging in parks during the COVID-19 … [Read more...] about Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure As Components of Economic Recovery
Three Ways In Which the Tourism Industry Can Help Build Climate Resilience in the Caribbean
As the Caribbean emerges from the pandemic, tourism stakeholders can embrace initiatives to increase climate change resilience through a focus on the environment, local communities, and value chains. After several months of being at a virtual standstill due to the pandemic —longer than was initially predicted — Caribbean tourism desperately needs to get back to … [Read more...] about Three Ways In Which the Tourism Industry Can Help Build Climate Resilience in the Caribbean
Amid the Pandemic, Some Keys to the Agriculture Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
COVID-19 poses a threat to agricultural production in the largest net food exporting region in the world — Latin America and the Caribbean. Protecting workers’ health, economic activity, and employment requires a careful risk assessment. Wilmer Pérez received a clear message on that morning in late February 2020. He was asked to attend an urgent meeting at the head office … [Read more...] about Amid the Pandemic, Some Keys to the Agriculture Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Addressing Climate Risk: Five Steps to Get Started
The pandemic has given us all a crash course in dealing with crises, becoming a sneak peak into what a man-made global disaster that disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable can cause. Climate change can be very similar, and knowing how to navigate and gauge its risks even harder. With COVID-19 coming at a time when some were already eschewing the term “climate … [Read more...] about Addressing Climate Risk: Five Steps to Get Started
