Mexico has a visionary president in the figure of Claudia Sheinbaum since it has a plan to mitigate the problems caused by climate change and drought, as well as a sustainable mobility strategy, said Mariana Mazzucato, director for Innovation and Public Purpose of the University College London.
“Here in Mexico, your president has a vision — and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has a vision — that speaks of the poles of well-being, the ability to focus on the water crisis and sustainable mobility,” said the Professor of Innovation Economics. and Public Value.
Sustainable mobility is important, because “I was surprised that Mexico does not have trains, something similar happened in the United States with the automotive industry that bought all the train tracks and we have more roads than trains.”
The expert said that currently, the United States is focusing a lot on the sustainability of the mobility system.
“We have a vision of inclusion of shared prosperity, that is a vision and that means that we have to produce in a different way,” said the ECLAC advisor.
In Europe, they have talked for a long time about the distribution of wealth in Latin America, but there is nothing to distribute if you do not generate value, considered Mariana Mazzucato.
Before executives of American companies was the economist Mariana Mazzucato, who also held conversations with Sheinbaum, as well as with the Secretary of Energy (Sener), Luz Elena González Escobar.
The economist of dual nationality, American and Italian, highlighted that to achieve shared prosperity, not only must resources be distributed, but innovation must also be promoted to create value in the post-Covid-19 society.
He explained that to achieve this objective it is necessary to move to a “complementary” collaboration between the State and the productive sectors, with the establishment of shared objectives to achieve better economic results in companies and in the standard of living of people.
She reiterated that public-private partnership is the answer to having more resources to be applied in productive solutions that support health, the environment, innovation and industrialization and economic development, said the economist invited by AmCham.
“The cost of inaction and lack of action is much greater than the cost of action in pandemics, climate change and respect for the loss of domestic product,” said the economist.
The world is close to the point of no return and during Covid-19 much of the help given to companies globally was not used at the time of the crisis to ensure the restoration of business, he recalled.
Climate and health are related and there is a climate and water crisis, he commented.
He added that the hydrological cycle is a common good and connects us all, so global action is needed to change environmental problems.
The climate has been shown to be responsible for causing droughts in Mexico and Brazil, as well as flooding in other parts of the world, Mazzucato said.
In the extraction of lithium for the manufacture of batteries we must be careful because it consumes a lot of water, he commented.
Water, said the expert, has to do with sustainable development goals, so “think about water as a series of problems that require global action, but between different sectors.”
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