Below Secretary of State for Financial Development, Power, and the Atmosphere Jose W. Fernandez will journey to Bogotá, Colombia, March 17-18, Panama Metropolis, Panama, March 19-20, and Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 21-23, to advertise key Administration objectives, together with within the areas of worldwide well being, meals safety, provide chain resilience, the surroundings, and regional financial cooperation all through the Western Hemisphere.
The Below Secretary intends to deepen collaboration with Colombia’s Petro administration on key environmental, financial, and vitality points. He’ll host the primary Financial and Well being Dialogue of the Americas (EHA) high-level ministerial assembly in Panama, launched on the Summit of the Americas final June. Lastly, Below Secretary Fernandez plans to construct on President Lula’s profitable February 10 go to to Washington to interact extra carefully with the brand new Brazilian management because it determines necessary coverage positions on surroundings, vitality, meals safety, crucial minerals, agriculture, and different financial points.
Throughout his visits, Below Secretary Fernandez will meet with authorities, enterprise, civil society, and different stakeholders to debate cooperation on a number of the most urgent international challenges, together with provide chain resilience, well being and meals safety, the clear vitality transition and local weather change, defending the surroundings, and selling crucial and rising applied sciences. He may even use what our nations have discovered from COVID-19 to work collectively to forestall the following pandemic. There are additionally alternatives to advance a number of country-specific digital/telecommunications and industrial advocacy objectives.
In Bogotá, the Below Secretary will promote engagement by way of the Americas Partnership for Financial Prosperity to advance a optimistic financial agenda for the area and talk about U.S.-Colombian joint tasks to guard the surroundings and telecommunications developments. He may even hear from personal sector and civil society voices on local weather change mitigation, the clear vitality transition, and labor rights.
In Panama Metropolis, Below Secretary Fernandez will lead the U.S. delegation on the first high-level dialogue of the EHA, facilitating conversations amongst senior well being and finance officers throughout the Western Hemisphere to strengthen nations’ resilience in opposition to future pandemics.
In Brasília, Below Secretary Fernandez will meet with senior authorities officers, enterprise, and civil society leaders to debate increasing U.S.-Brazil cooperation in clear vitality, well being, resilient provide chains, sustainable agriculture, labor, and environmental safety. In Rio de Janeiro, Below Secretary Fernandez will meet with environmental NGOs, key well being actors, clear vitality advocates, and accelerators for girls’s financial empowerment.
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