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Thursday, 02 August 2012 02:00

Editorial Newsletter #5

In Latin America, conditions of geography, climate and vulnerability to natural, social and economic events make the region highly fragile with regard to the economic impacts of climate change.

Within the context of the EUROCLIMA programme, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) undertakes actions intended to improve knowledge and facilitate the exchange of socioeconomic information about climate change in Latin America.

There now exists a consensus as to the relationship between concentrations of greenhouse gases and climate change, although we still lack knowledge about the channels of transmission and the magnitude of these effects on the well-being of households.

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 17:47

Economic and Social Impacts

The available evidence reveals that climate change has economic and social consequences on biodiversity and, in general, on the well-being of the population, and will be one of the key factors in the style of development during the 21st century (IPCC, 2007; Stern, 2007).

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