The Forum organized by CAF and Unitar in Tokyo offered a platform for dialogue between Japan and Latin America

(Caracas, November 26, 2010).- In Tokyo, CAF and the UN Institute for Training and Research (Unitar) organized the Japan-Latin America Forum: Sustainable Industrial Policies, with the participation of high-level Japanese authorities in the environment and economic areas, notably Environment Minister Ysuharu Ueda; deputy minister of International Affairs of the Ministry of Economy, Hideichi Okada; and the president of JBIC, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Hiroshi Watanabe.

During the event, Enrique García, president & CEO of CAF – promoter of the organization of this first Forum, stressed the importance of having been able to build a platform for dialogue on a sustainable industrial policy where the Japanese authorities presented their knowledge, technology and experience to the Latin American representatives.

García offered the Latin American authorities CAF’s support for developing policies and strategies that contribute to sustainable development in areas of clean production, mitigation of climate change, adaptation, efficiency and use of renewable energies, as well as technology development and transfer, for regional industrial development in terms compatible with care and respect for the environment.

Latin America-Japan Relations

CAF and Unitar received the cooperation of the Japanese ministries of Foreign Affairs, Environment, Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and the ambassadors in Tokyo of the Group of Latin America and Caribbean (GRULAC) for holding the Forum.

The event was the first of a series of annual meetings to be organized by the two institutions which CAF hopes will strengthen existing relations and open new areas for creation of work networks and detection of opportunities for cooperation, thus deepening its integrationist and articulating role between countries.