- Colombia’s BIO programme is an example of efficient production and consumption of resources to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation. Between 2019 and 2022, the programme registered 148 of the 500 sustainable bioproducts that it aims to generate by 2030.
- The regional initiative for a child-labour-free Latin America and the Caribbean, led by 31 national governments2 in partnership with workers’ and employers’ organizations, seeks to accelerate progress to eradicate child labour by 2025 through coordinated and sustained action region-wide.
- ILO and ECLAC developed the Child Labour Risk Identification Model, an innovative tool for identifying the most vulnerable territories with regard to child labour and providing key information to guide specific policies and programmes. At present, 11 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have implemented the model.3
- The Statistical Commission of the United Nations recently approved the statistical framework for measuring the sustainability of tourism. Because the framework is based on the information provided by tourism satellite accounts and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, the lack of such information hinders planning and decision-making on tourism development and its sustainability.
- Mexico participated actively in the design and testing of the statistical framework for measuring the sustainability of tourism, and the Dominican Republic is also making efforts to strengthen tourism management at the territorial level.
2 Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.
3 Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru.