Department of Sustainable Development

Southern Cone Regional Workshop on Sustainable Energy.

Santiago, Chile- July 11,2008

The Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is organizing a Southern Cone Regional Workshop on Sustainable Energy which will occur on the 11th of July 2008 in Santiago, Chile.

This workshop is a follow-up of the results obtained during the Inter-American Meeting of National Authorities and Experts on Energy for Sustainable Development in the Americas which was held at the OAS headquarters on the 3rd of March 2008. During this meeting, it was decided that four workshops would be organized in order to discuss the themes of the 37th General Assembly. These workshops would adopt a specific regional perspective.

The objective of the Santiago Workshop is to increase the sustainability of the energy sector by increasing the cooperation in between the countries of the region. This workshop will focus on (1) regional energy integration and cooperation as well as, (2) diversification of the energy resources and energy eficiency. l Agenda

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