The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Regional Multi-Stakeholder Consultation for Stockholm +50 took place in a virtual format on the 5th and 6th of April 2022 with around 350 participants per day. It included two panels and six working groups. The regional consultation was organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GO4SDGs (Global opportunities for SDGs).
Some of the key messages and recommendations emerging from plenaries include:
- Companies to implement solid reporting systems and review their supply chains;
- Preventing violence against environmental defenders;
- Promoting a more harmonious relationship with nature;
- Better protection of Indigenous rights; and
- Ending development focused on resource extraction and promoting a more holistic concept of development that provides for healthier conditions for people and the environment;
- Renewed cooperation and trust buildings;
- Stakeholder engagement, including youth engagement at all levels;
- A reorientation from the present focus on economic growth to a focus on wellbeing, the inclusion of perspectives from different genders and races, and collaboration in community building;
- Financial institutions to play an active role in scaling up sustainable development.
There are also key messages and recommendations from the working groups.