Build Back Better: A Green and Sustainable Economic Recovery

Organizer(s) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Format

In person

Event language(s)

Spanish

Date

10 July 2020

Build Back Better: A Green and Sustainable Economic Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the unsustainability and pre-existing inequalities of current economic and social systems, but it has also created an opportunity to build back better and rethink such systems and, in this way, generate a paradigm shift towards a more sustainable development. This meeting will aim to explore how climate change and environmental health can be considered as an important component of economic recovery plans.

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Hazards Epidemic and Pandemic

Themes Capacity development