All the main panels at the meeting will be broadcast live from April 1-4. The invitation, on social media, is to participate in the debates using hashtags #ForoALC2030 and #LACForum2030.

The eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will take place on March 31-April 4 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The purpose of the meeting is to analyze progress and challenges of the 2030 Agenda in the region, five years ahead of the deadline set for its fulfillment.

More than 600 people are already confirmed to attend this meeting, which will feature a series of dialogues on global, regional and national action as a special innovation. 

High-level authorities will attend, including ministers and vice-ministers from several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It will be inaugurated on Tuesday, April 1 at 8:30 a.m. local time in Santiago, Chile (GMT-3) by Peru’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elmer Schialer, in his capacity as official representative of the country currently serving as Chair of ECLAC; the UN regional organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs; the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, Li Junhua; and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed (via video message).

Participants will include representatives of government from all 33 region’s countries, the United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, international financial institutions and development banks, regional and sub-regional integration organizations, civil society, the parliamentary world, academia, and the private sector from Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions of the world. 

Web site

The web site created for the occasion https://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2025/en/, provides general event information, accreditation forms, the program schedule, reference documents, press releases and news, as well as links to ECLAC’s social media. The site also lists the multiple actors participating, in addition to other information sources. 

Live broadcast

All the gathering’s panels will be transmitted live via the following platforms:

• Meeting website: https://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2025/en/ 
• ECLAC’s website: www.cepal.org
• Live streaming special website: https://live.cepal.org/
• Official account on X: https://x.com/cepal_onu 
• Official account on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu  

Any media outlet or organization is free to replicate the transmission on their own Internet portals.

X (formerly Twitter)

We will be tweeting in English and Spanish from both of our institutional accounts, @cepal_onu and @eclac_un, with hashtags #ForoALC2030 and #LACForum2030. We’ll also use #CEPAL and #ECLAC, #Agenda2030 and #2030Agenda, #ODS and #SDGs and #desarrollosostenible and #sustainabledevelopment.

Facebook 

We’ll be sharing diverse contents related to the meeting on our Facebook pages at https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu/ and https://www.facebook.com/eclac.

YouTube

The entire conference will remain available on our YouTube channels for later consultation. Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/user/CEPALONU and https://www.youtube.com/user/ECLACUN. 

Flickr

All photographs of the event will be published on our institution’s Flickr accounts: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cepal/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/eclac. Corresponding credits will be published for each image.