Title: Workshop on South-South and Technological Cooperation for Climate Action and Sustainable Development
Date: 20 August 2018
Time: 09:00h - 13:00h
Organizers: UNFCCC, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), Technology Executive Committee (TEC), Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Venue: Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week, Montevideo, Uruguay

09:00 - 09:30
Opening remarks
- Jorge Rucks, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, National Directorate of the Environment, Uruguay
- Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Former Minister of Environment, Peru, and COP20 President; Leader of Climate and Energy Practice, WWF
- Marcos Regis da Silva, Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
- Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (video message)
- Jorge Chediek, Secretary-General’s Envoy on South-South Cooperation and Director, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (video message)

09:30 - 10:30 
Introductory Presentation
- United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

Session I: Experiences, opportunities and challenges of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Latin American and Caribbean region

This session presents a look back on what countries have learned so far on approaches, success stories, and challenges of South-South and Triangular cooperation, including technological cooperation in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It explores their impacts and lessons learned, the challenges they have overcome as well as potential for their replication.

Moderator: Mariama Williams, Senior Programme Officer, Global Governance for Development Programme, The South Centre

Presenters
- Mariano Jordan, Director for Innovation and Cooperation, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina
- Adelle Thomas, Scientific Advisor, University of The Bahamas/Climate Analytics, and UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee Member
- Carlos Cecil Fuller, International and Regional Liaison Officer, Office of the Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Center
- Gladys Santis, Climate Change Officer and Chile Focal Point to the IAI, Division of Climate Change, Ministry of the Environment, Chile
- Gabriel Aintablian, Vice-Chair, Institute of Meteorology, Uruguay

10:30 - 10:40  Coffee break

10:40 - 11:40
Session II: South-South and Triangular Cooperation among non-state actors at the subnational and urban level in the Latin American and Caribbean region

More than 80% percent population in LACCW lives in urban areas. This session presents policy and scientific dialogue focusing on how cooperation among non-state actors in particular at city level can be enhanced to address climate change and to achieve sustainable development. 

Moderator: Raul O’Ryan, Director, Centre for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2) Chile

Panelists
- Rodrigo de Oliveira Perpétuo, Executive Secretary, ICLEI South América
- Dario Gomez, Scientist, National Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina
- Jussara de Lima Carvalho, International Affairs Advisor, Secretariat for Environment, Sa?o Paulo State Government
- Patricia Himschoot, Manager, Climate Change, Buenos Aires City Government
- Michel Carles Tapia, Regional Metropolitan Government of Santiago

11:40 - 12:40 
Session III: The way forward - Advancing SSC for effective implementation of Paris Agreement and sustainable development in the Latin American and Caribbean region

Taking into account experiences shared in the previous session, this session will explore concrete and pragmatic ways, including on methodological aspects, relevant instruments and modalities that may be used to design, finance and implement South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives. Speakers are encouraged to share their perspectives and insights on how to further advance South-South cooperation, on the road towards the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.

Moderator: Andrea Camponogara, TEC Liaison Officer, Technology Sub-Programme, Finance, Technology and Capacity Building (FTC) Programme, United Nations Convention on Climate Change secretariat 

Panelists
- Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Former Minister of Environment, Peru, and COP20 President; Leader of Climate and Energy Practice, WWF
- Ignacio Lorenzo, Director Climate Change Office, Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment, Uruguay
- Pedro Borges, Research Associate, Ecosystems and Global Change Lab, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Venezuela, and UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee Member
- Raul O’Ryan, Director, Centre for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2) Chile
- Kathya Fajardo, Agriculture and Climate Change Specialist, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

12:40 - 12:45 Wrap up and closing