14:00 –14:30 OPENING CEREMONY
- Opening Remarks: Prof. Alvaro Mendez, Director, LSE Global South Unit at LSE IDEAS/IRD
- Welcome Address: Prof. Larry Kramer, President, LSE
- Keynote Address: Sergio Diaz Granados, President, CAF
14:30 – 16:00 FIRST PANEL: “LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN’S CLIMATE DIPLOMACY”
As outlined in the CAF RED2023 and RED2024, climate change, energy transition, and the preservation of biodiversity are an ever-increasing challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean. The deteriorating impacts of climate change also have consequences on social inequality in the region. Brazil’s current G20 presidency envisions to fight against inequality, promote sustainable environmental and social development, foreshadowing COP 30, which will also take place in Brazil. COP16 on biodiversity will also be held this year in Colombia, highlighting the region’s importance for coordinated international climate action. Latin America emerges as a new leader in climate diplomacy. The region’s management of natural resources, social inequality, and climate justice will be discussed in the first panel, as well as regional and international diplomatic efforts to coordinate climate policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Chair/Discussant: Prof. Gareth Jones, LSE Department of Geography and Environment
SPEAKERS
- Prof. Kathryn Hochstetler, Department of International Development, LSE
- Dr Irene Mia, Senior Fellow for Latin America, Conflict, Security and Development, IISS
- Dr Alicia Montalvo, Manager Climate Change and Positive Biodiversity, CAF
- Dr Denyse S. Dookie, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 SECOND PANEL: “A NEW ERA: LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN’S TURN TO ASIA?”
Over many years, Latin America and the Caribbean have been majorly influenced by the US. However, over the past two decades China has emerged as a new superpower, dominating the region, possibly securing a new sphere of influence. But China is not the only Asian nation that gained in importance in Latin America and the Caribbean. South-South cooperation appears to be a newly emerging trend. The second forum will discuss the challenges and opportunities of Latin America’s increasing interactions with Asia.
Chair/Discussant: Prof. Alvaro Mendez, Director LSE Global South Unit
SPEAKERS
- Dr Laura Waisbich, South-South Cooperation Research and Policy Centre (Articulação SUL)
- Dr Stacy Richards Kennedy, Regional Manager for the Caribbean, CAF
- Prof. Gregory Chin, York University in Toronto
- Margaret Myers, Director of the Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue
- Prof, Chris Alden, Director LSE IDEAS
18:00 – 18:30 COFFEE BREAK
18:30 – 19:45 CLOSING ROUNDTABLE: FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT
This roundtable will take place at the Alumni Theatre at the Cheng Kin Ki (CKK) Building (54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ)
The Closing Roundtable will be a dialogue where solutions to the challenges of climate crisis and a changing world order will be debated from the perspective of development finance. Insights into how sustainable finance can be achieved in Latin America and beyond will be discussed. The dialogue will foreshadow the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), scheduled for 2025, in Spain.
The closing roundtable will revolve around how to shape the global financing agenda and advance sustainable development goals.
Chair: Dr Rohan Mukherjee, Associate Professor IRD & Deputy Director
IDEAS SPEAKERS
- Dr Sebastian Nieto, Head of Latin America and the Caribbean, OECD Development Centre
- Dr Zhongjing Wang, CEO, Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF)
- Dr Iliana Olivié, Senior Analyst, Real Instituto Elcano
- Gabriel Felpeto, Vice President of Finance, CAF
CLOSING REMARKS
- Dr Veronica Frisancho, Knowledge Manager, CAF
- Prof, Chris Alden, LSE
19:45 – 20:30 WINE RECEPTION