A/HRC/36/35 2030 Agenda represented an important opportunity to revitalize and implement the right to development. In particular, the importance of Member States’ accountability for the international dimension of the right to development and the need for the development of indicators to measure progress in that regard were highlighted. Some suggested that more attention be paid to particular topics, such as taxation, public-private partnerships, financing for development, global governance, access to medicines, intellectual property, technology transfer and climate change. In December 2016, the Chair-Rapporteur participated as a panellist in a panel discussion organized by the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan. 45. In the ensuing discussion, the representative of Ecuador asked the Chair-Rapporteur to elaborate on some of the reactions of the various stakeholders with whom he had met. The Chair-Rapporteur responded that, in principle, everyone supported the work of the Working Group. He stressed the underlying need for coordination between the Secretariats in Geneva and in New York regarding the 2030 Agenda and how it connected to the right to development. The positions expressed by the Group of 77 and the Non-Aligned Movement were broadly the same as the views expressed by the Working Group. With the World Bank representative, he stressed the need for more proactive engagement on the part of the Bank in the deliberations of the Working Group. At the panel discussion organized by the Geneva Centre in December 2016, participants supported the right to development and the synergy between the Working Group and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The more the Working Group was able to integrate its work with the 2030 Agenda, the better the chances of success would be. E. Interactive dialogue on the implementation and realization of the right to development 46. The interactive dialogue on the implementation and realization of the right to development and the implications of the 2030 Agenda, including possible engagement of the Working Group with the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development was composed of two panels. 6 The panellists and topics in the first panel were: Vicente Yu, Deputy Executive Director and Coordinator, Global Governance for Development Programme, South Centre, on the implications of the SDGs for the realization of the right to development; Flavia Piovesan, Special Secretary for Human Rights, Ministry of Human Rights, Brazil, on the right to development perspective for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals; Olivier de Schutter, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, on the extraterritorial legal obligations of States and the responsibility of business enterprises for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights; MariaLuisa Silva, Director, United Nations Development Programme, Geneva Office, on the role of UNDP in the implementation of the SDGs and the right to development; Richard KozulWright, Director, Globalization and Development Strategies Division, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, on from hyperglobalization to a global new deal: rethinking the right to development. 47. Mr. Yu highlighted the need to look at the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and the Declaration on the Right to Development in relation to examining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He emphasized the duty of States to implement the right to development and identified four key challenges: the global economy in crisis; climate change; the increase in new global pandemics; and the advent of automation and increasing use of digital technologies with disruptive effects. All of those challenges were caused by human beings and the solution rested on the global community. He emphasized the need for international cooperation as a key element to enable developing countries to address the Sustainable Development Goals. The right to development and the Sustainable Development Goals were part of a global discourse to ensure that humans had a decent 6 Transcripts of the experts’ presentations are available from www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/ Pages/18thSession.aspx. 11