The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold a Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at Colombia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This meeting serves as the Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM). The Conference will focus on the follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), with a regional perspective. It will be preceded by the Caribbean Forum on the theme of “Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century,” on 5-6 March 2013.  

dates: 7-9 March 2013   venue: Crowne Plaza Tequendama Bogotá, Avenida Carrera 10, 26-21, Bogotá, Colombia   location: Bogota, Colombia   contact: Luis Fidel Yáñez or Guillermo Acuña   phone: +56 2 2210 2275, +56 2 2210 2488   e-mail: luis.yanez@cepal.org; guillermo.acuna@cepal.org   www: http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getprod.asp?xml=/rio20/noticias/paginas/6/48936/P48936.xml&xsl=/rio20/tpl-i/p18f-st.xsl&base=/rio20/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl