10 studies on climate change impacts and actions in Latin America
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presents ten new studies on climate change in Latin America that analyze the link between this phenomenon and development styles, its interrelationship with the energy sector and its impact on agricultural activities and biodiversity, as well as adaptation and mitigation measures and environmental fiscal reforms to try to minimize its effects.
These publications, produced by ECLAC's Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, are the result of the work carried out in the framework of EUROCLIMA, The European Union and Latin America, a cooperation program financed by the European Union, in which the United Nations regional organization has been in charge of the component related to the development of public policies for mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
In the report Climate change and energy in Latin America studies the main determinants of energy supply and demand in the region, its possible trajectories in relation to economic growth and climate change, and the main public policies applied in this sector. Two other publications -Climate change and agricultural activities in Latin America y Climate change and its effects on biodiversity in Latin America- analyze the effects of climate change on the agricultural sector and on biodiversity, respectively.
In addition, the study Adaptation and mitigation measures to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A general review synthesizes the main public policies on adaptation and mitigation implemented or considered in the region, while the report Adaptation to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean delves into the options and conditions for successful adaptation initiatives.
At Environmental fiscal reform in Latin America reviews the fiscal instruments used at the regional and international levels and draws some lessons for the design of these reforms. This topic is also addressed in The political economy of environmental fiscal reform in Latin America, which analyzes the political processes and resistance that such initiatives must face, from their elaboration to their implementation.
On the other hand, the report Environmental federalism in Latin America: a review analyzes, based on different objectives and circumstances, which level of government - national, state or municipal - should be in charge of environmental policy and what are the conditions for its success. The cases of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are studied and, outside the region, China.
Finally, the following are proposed Eight theses on climate change and sustainable development in Latin America, The authors of this paper point to the unsustainability of the region's current style of development and argue that the effects of climate change also reinforce the historical weaknesses of that style of development, as argued in Development styles, structural heterogeneity and climate change in Latin America.
Source: ECLAC
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