2021 SDLAC Conference

The Sixth Annual Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on April 5th to April 9th, 2021 at the Yale School of the Environment. This year’s theme is “Recovering from the Pandemic Through Sustainability”.

The 2021 conference will explore the acute impact of the COVID-19 health crisis and the impact it has had in Latin Americans. The region has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. While this can be explained and studied from the lenses of sustainability and social justice alike, the conference is more concerned with looking ahead. What comes next in the development of the LAC region will be crucial in determining if and when true social equity is achieved, and sustainable development provides a useful framework from which to look at a potential equitable recovery.

Born out of student initiative, the event will be co-hosted by Yale School of the Environment and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at The MacMillan Center.

More information can be found at https://sdlac.yale.edu/ 

Keynote: Old and New Sustainability Problems in Cities: What COVID Has Revealed
 Gian Carlo Delgado

Panel 1: Nature-Based Solutions for the Water Sector in LAC
 This panel will be in Spanish, with simultaneous translation into English
 Natalia Acero
 Ana Gabriela Morales
 Florencia Zapata

Keynote: The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector and its Response to Covid-19: Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
 Virginia Marriezcurrena

Panel 2: Defending the Amazon: Stories and Challenges
 This panel will be in Spanish, with simultaneous translation into English 
 Joseph Zárate
 Bruno Monteferri
 Víctor Zambrano

Panel 3: Decarbonization pathways: raising climate ambition in the AFOLU sector
 Silvia Llamas
 Deissy Martínez Baron
 Manuel Estrada

Panel 4: Innovative approaches to envision new urban futures
 Mariana Alegre 
 Jose Lobo