Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20

The meeting focused on development goals, global and regional governance and the discussion, from a regional perspective, of agreements adopted in order to inform the ongoing global processes.  This conference was preceded by the Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century, on 5-6 of March 2013 in the Esmeralda Conference Room of the same hotel.

Documents of the conference

• Preliminary programme
• Report from the conference

Interventions & Proposals by Delegations 

Opening session

• Regional Consultation post-2015 in Latin America and the Caribbean - Heraldo Muñoz, Chair of the United Nations Development Group - Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDG-LAC) (in Spanish)
• The vision of civil society - Philipp Schönrock, Member of the Board of the Colombian Confederation of NGOs (CCONG) (in Spanish)
• The sustainable development agenda and the post-2015 development agenda: goals for action - Juan Gabriel Uribe, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia (in Spanish)

Follow-up to the post-2015 development agenda: Regional overview and the Millennium Development Goals  

• The sustainable development model for Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities - Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, ECLAC and Coordinator of the Regional Coordination Mechanism

Rio+20: Sustainable development goals within the framework of “The future we want”

• Synergies between processes post-2015 and the sustainable development goals - Paula Caballero, Director of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia

Evaluation of sustainable development (monitoring and participation)

• Contributions from Community of Official Statisticians to SDGs and Post-2015 Development Agenda - Ivo Havinga, Chief of the Economic Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division 
• Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: towards a regional instrument - José Luis Balmaceda, Ambassador and Director for the Environment and Maritime Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (in Spanish)

Plenary Session

• Intervenciones de Chile - José Luis Balmaceda, Ambassador and Director for the Environment and Maritime Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (in Spanish)
• Intervention by Representative of PAHO/WHO - Dr. Karen Sealey, Senior Adviser, UN Matters and Partnerships
• Intervention by Representative of Major Groups - Donna Da Costa-Martinez, Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago

Contact: rio20@cepal.org