The Executive Secretary will present the document Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development, with comments by Luis Videgaray Caso, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico and Mariana Mazzucato, Economist and Professor of Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRE) of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

The position document for the thirty-sixth session examines the main challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean in the economic, social and environmental spheres. There is a growing consensus within the international community that the current development pattern is unsustainable. This is borne out by a number of indicators: rising inequality in the countries, slow and weak recovery in the global economy and trade, and environmentally unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, which are jeopardizing the well-being of future generations. On the basis of the Sustainable Development Goals and in light of global economic trends, ECLAC considers the policies and partnerships that the region will need in order to move towards a development path capable of ensuring greater equality and environmental sustainability. The document prepared by the secretariat argues that new global public goods are required to guarantee stable growth with inclusion, the creation of good-quality employment and environmental stewardship. It also makes regional and national policy proposals geared towards an environmental big push, in the framework of a renewed relationship between the State, the market and society.

Preliminary Programme

9.30 – 10.15 a.m. Chair: Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico 

• Presentation of the document Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development, by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

10.15 – 10.35 a.m. Comments by Luis Videgaray Caso, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico

10.35– 10.55 a.m. Comments by Mariana Mazzucato, Economist and Professor of Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRE) of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom

10.55 – 11.30 a.m. Statements by delegations 

Presentation of the document Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development (Video of the Meeting)