PPT-Climate Change and Health: Focus in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr Agnes Soares Regional Advisor SDE PAHOWHO CLIMATE AND HEALTH SUMMIT ALONG SIDE THE 20 TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES LIMA PERU 6 TH DECEMBER 2014 1 Regional Plan of Action on Climate Change. Juan Carlos Moreno . Brid. . Deputy. Director . ECLAC - . Mexico. . . JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY,. New Delhi, . January. 2012. Global growth has slowed sharply after the recovery from the crisis. Robert Devlin and Graciela . Moguillanski. Comment by Carlos Alvarez. OECD Development Centre. Why industrial policy in Latin America?. Latin America has experienced high rates of growth but,. Dr . Camillia. . Cowling. 1940s recordings of Brazilian slave songs by Stanley . Stein. No tempo do . cativeiro. Aturava. . muito. . desaforo. Levantava. de . manha. . cedo. Com . cara. . limpa. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Iran Rodrigues, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida . iranmr@ufl.edu. . Overview. Democracy and Justice in Latin America. Political. institutions and Government. Brief Political and Economic history. In Latin America, most of the countries are quite ____.. They are what we would called ____ nations because they are still mainly agricultural based and do not have a great deal of money per person, or ____ income.. Dr. Christopher . Tufton. Hon. Minister of Health, Jamaica. NCDs : Burden in The Caribbean. 3 out of 4 people die from an NCD. NCDs: Caribbean Highest Premature Mortality. Premature Mortality:. Colonization of Latin America. Before Europeans arrived the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations ruled different parts of today’s Latin America. These indigenous people had developed their own cultures with unique languages and religions.. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. L Latin American and Caribbean Studies The concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACA) leads to a strong, interdisciplinary understanding of culture, history, and contemporary issues United Nations, General recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19 (CEDAW/C/GC/35), 2017. Measuring femicide: e�ortsto bolsterproce See [online] https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action. Complementary indicator C-5.2: Rates of femicide or feminicide (gender-related killings of women aged 15 y Freshwater is critical to life throughout the Caribbean. Increasing global carbon emissions are projected to reduce average rainfall in this region by the end of the century, constraining freshwater availability, while extreme rainfall events, which can increase freshwater flooding impacts, are expected to increase in intensity. Saltwater intrusion associated with sea level rise will reduce the quantity and quality of freshwater in coastal aquifers. Increasing variability in rainfall events and increasing temperatures will likely alter the distribution of ecological life zones and exacerbate existing problems in water management, planning, and infrastructure capacity.. UTech/. BiPS. November 30, 2016 . at the . Montego Bay Convention Centre. Jamaica. 1. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in collaboration with the World Bank (WB) has embarked on a vision to establish the first permanent centre for procurement...