Fri, Oct 11 2024

• Grand Salon, second floor
  Panel 4: How to promote sustainability and address climate change?
  09:00 am to 10:30 am

  Moderator: Juan Carlos Castro Vargas, Minister of the Environment, Peru 
  • Christian Nieves, National Energy Director of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay 
  • Kishan Kumarsingh, Head of Multilateral Agreements in the Ministry of Planning and Development of Trinidad and Tobago 
  • Alicia Montalvo, Head of Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity at the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean 
  • Ana María Zamora del Castillo, Vice-President of the Colombian Mining Association 

  Ana María Zamora del Castillo - ¿Como promover la sostenibilidad y enfrentar el cambio climático?
  Alicia Montalvo - CAF, banco verde y del crecimiento sostenible e inclusivo
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Statements by delegations
  10:30 am to 11:00 am
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC and the outcomes of other intergovernmental meetings organized by ECLAC since its thirty-ninth session
  11:00 am to 12:15 pm

  • Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee,  presented by Alva Romanus Baptiste, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs of Saint Lucia 

  • Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Miosotis Rivas Peña, Director General of the National Office of Statistics of the Dominican Republic  
   
  • Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Mateo Estremé, Director General of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina  

  • Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Virginia Pardo, Head of the Information Society Department of the Uruguay Agency for the Development of Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society of Uruguay  

  • Regional Council for Planning, presented by Pável Isa, Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic  

  • Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies, presented by Ángela Yesenia Olaya Requene, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia  

  • Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Francisca Gallegos, Undersecretary for Social Services of the Ministry of Social Development and Family Affairs of Chile 

  • Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Kandya Obezo Casseres, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia 

  • Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Francisca Gallegos, Undersecretary for Social Services of the Ministry of Social Development and Family Affairs of Chile  

  • Conference of the Parties to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Marcelo Cousillas, Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay 

• Grand Salon, second floor
  Statements by delegations
  12:15 pm to 01:00 pm
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Presentation of the Report on the activities of the Commission, 2023 and Presentation of the Draft programme of work of the ECLAC system, 2026 
  02:30 pm to 03:15 pm
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Statements by delegations
  03:15 pm to 03:45 pm
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Consideration and adoption of the resolutions of the Commission at its fortieth session
  04:00 pm to 04:15 pm
• Grand Salon, second floor
  Closing session
  04:15 pm to 04:45 pm

  • Elmer Schialer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru
  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC