Mapeo sobre fuentes de financiamiento climático provenientes del sector privado en América Latina y el Caribe

Este estudio aborda los aspectos relacionados con la ambición en materia de adaptación al cambio climático presentes en las contribuciones determinadas a nivel nacional de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Se identifican las principales vulnerabilidades e impactos del cambio climático en la región, profundizando en aquellos sectores de mayor relevancia.  

La serie tiene como objetivo proporcionar información sobre cómo se puede abordar la planificación de la recuperación verde y qué factores pueden contribuir a una implementación exitosa, así como una colección de buenas prácticas.

Green Recovery for Practitioners - Fiscal Policies for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Transformation

While the Covid-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for countries worldwide, it has also created opportunities for driving transformation through a green recovery.

The objective of this background document is to support and accompany this process byproviding a brief overview of core elements of an institutional setup to be considered. Thedocument contributes to the UN Environment project Accelerating Climate Action underEuroclima+; it was elaborated by the University of Geneva’s Institute of EnvironmentalGovernance and Territorial Development, with inputs from the Mountain Research Initiative.

This report presents intermediate results of a broader analysis of the economic responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the LAC region, and how the allocated investments can accelerate the economic recovery phase while meeting climate change goals. The report has been developed thanks to an investment tracking tool, the LAC Recovery Tracker, which analyses over 1,100 policies to provide a live snapshot on spending in the region. The LAC Recovery Tracker is a subset of the larger Global Recovery Observatory.i