Biodiversity and development: thoughts from Latin America and the Caribbean

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cepal.bibLevelDocumento Completo
cepal.callNumberLC/TS.2024/95
cepal.divisionEngNatural Resources Division
cepal.divisionSpaDivisión de Recursos Naturales
cepal.docTypeDocumentos de proyectos e investigación
cepal.regionalOfficeSantiago
cepal.sdg17
cepal.topicEngBIODIVERSITY
cepal.topicEngSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
cepal.topicEngNATURAL RESOURCES
cepal.topicSpaBIODIVERSIDAD
cepal.topicSpaDESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE
cepal.topicSpaRECURSOS NATURALES
cepal.workareaEngSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
cepal.workareaSpaDESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE Y ASENTAMIENTOS HUMANOS
dc.contributor.entityNU. CEPAL
dc.contributor.institutionFrancia. Gobierno
dc.coverage.spatialEngLATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
dc.coverage.spatialSpaAMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-18T20:05:52Z
dc.date.available2025-08-18T20:05:52Z
dc.date.issued2025-08-18
dc.description.abstractThis document examines the challenges and opportunities facing Latin America and the Caribbean in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. While the region has abundant natural resources that have been instrumental in driving economic growth, their overexploitation has jeopardized this valuable heritage and exacerbated social inequality, and that, together with habitat loss, deforestation and climate change, threatens long-term sustainability. In that context, the development model must be reoriented towards a more sustainable one that values, preserves and regenerates the region’s natural heritage. Achieving this requires strengthening the participation of local institutions and actors and promoting research, investment and effective environmental governance, including the recognition of Indigenous Peoples, as key actors in the protection of biodiversity. Integrating conservation into public policies and decision-making processes will enable the region not only to ensure a more prosperous and sustainable future for its inhabitants, but also to produce innovative solutions to environmental challenges.
dc.description.tableOfContentsIntroduction .-- 1. The Latin American and Caribbean region is endowed with a rich natural heritage that, in addition to helping regulate the planet’s climate, supports a vast number of livelihoods. Its deterioration not only jeopardizes environmental sustainability, but also entails the depletion of an asset that is essential for economic and social development .-- 2. Latin America and the Caribbean has the opportunity to transform its development model through new consumption and production practices that boost key sectors and, at the same time, preserve and recover its valuable natural heritage .-- 3. Transforming the unsustainable development model requires significant increases in biodiversity investment. The recovery of natural heritage will not only help ensure development sustainability, but will also prevent its current bases from being compromised in the long term .-- 4. Biodiversity loss and climate change are closely interconnected: they affect and exacerbate each other. Reversing the negative reciprocal effects requires adopting a comprehensive strategy that addresses both phenomena jointly, promoting coordinated actions in support of nature .-- 5. Bolstering biodiversity as a basis for the region’s development requires improving and promoting transformative governance and institutional capacities and resources in the region’s countries, as well as strengthening the rule of law, justice systems and environmental democracy.
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dc.format.extent40 pages
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dc.identifier.unSymbolLC/TS.2024/95
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/82396
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherECLAC
dc.publisher.placeSantiago
dc.relation.isPartOfSeriesDocumentos de Proyectos
dc.relation.translationLanguagespa
dc.relation.translationRecordBiodiversidad y desarrollo: reflexiones desde América Latina y el Caribe
dc.relation.translationUrihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/80754
dc.subject.unbisEngBIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
dc.subject.unbisEngSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
dc.subject.unbisEngENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
dc.subject.unbisEngPOPULAR PARTICIPATION
dc.subject.unbisSpaDIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA
dc.subject.unbisSpaDESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE
dc.subject.unbisSpaDESARROLLO ECONOMICO
dc.subject.unbisSpaDESARROLLO SOCIAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaGESTION AMBIENTAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaPROTECCION AMBIENTAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaJUSTICIA AMBIENTAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaPARTICIPACION POPULAR
dc.titleBiodiversity and development: thoughts from Latin America and the Caribbean
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