The Buenos Aires Plan of Action 40th anniversary is getting closer, and the Second United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation to be held in the main city of Argentina would build bridges between critical elements of Sustainable Development Goals and financing, the Paris Climate Change
Agreement and the South-South Cooperation. As a consequence, to focus on technical cooperation won’t be enough to maintain South-South cooperation relevance: the BAPA+40 conference has to strategize the role of global South in the emerging structure of global value chains and promote a Southern-led and Southern-focused responsible research and innovation effort.