Building resilient economies: building back, better and greener, leaving no one behind

Organized by:
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 9:00-10:30 GMT-5
 2 November 2021
 High Level Session 2
 Virtual

The SDGs are integrated and indivisible, balancing the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. However, this century is likely to be dominated by the emergence of large-scale dynamic risks that inherently cut across these dimensions. Currently, building resilience in a country faces greater challenges due to the context of increased vulnerability. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the extent to which a single hazard has the potential to trigger a multitude of cascading effects, impacting the life support systems of societies and economies worldwide and at all scales. Strengthening resilience means devising a strategy that promotes coherence across agendas and enhances sustainability. The discussion during this session will focus on four pillars of this strategy:

• Ensuring coherence between disaster risk reduction and the climate change agenda to enable greener and more resilient recovery. 
• Promoting disaster risk reduction with a green bias highlighting the importance of prevention.
• Financing disaster risk management with a green tax incentive to achieve resilient recovery.
• Integrating disaster risk reduction into development planning.

Speakers

Panelists

Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Luis Felipe López-Calva
Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Seynabou Sakho
Director of Strategy and Operations for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank

Luz Keila Virginia Gramajo Vilchez
Secretary of Planning and Programming, Presidency of Guatemala

Laura Cárdenas Lorenzo
Consultant in Communications and Visibility for the area of Governance at EUROsociAL+