New Financial Mechanisms for Clean Energy Investments in Latin America

United Nations Environment Programme

dc.contributor	Industry and Economy Division	en_US
dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Latin America and the Caribbean	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-19T07:48:11Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-19T07:48:11Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05
dc.identifier.isbn	978-92-807-4027-1	en_US
dc.identifier.other	DTI/2525/PA	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/42471
dc.description	UNEP’s Finance Unit and Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean have commissioned this work to map out regional needs for clean energy investments in Latin America and demonstrate that through an innovative public-private support mechanism, the existing early-stage financing gap for renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in the region can be bridged. The analysis has been focused on 12 countries in Latin America: Six from Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama), and six from South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru). The report starts with a brief overview of the region’s climate, economic, energy profiles and current clean energy investments in section 2. Section 3 takes stock of the current regulatory and policy framework for clean energy and the barriers it poses for clean energy investments while section 4 analyses market and financial barriers. Such barriers are part of a broader context of existing initiatives and trends of which an overview is provided in section 5 to map ongoing efforts and gaps that are left unaddressed. Section 6 works as a conclusion summarizing those gaps and potential ways to address them.	en_US
dc.format	pdf	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.rights	Public	en_US
dc.subject	Latin America	en_US
dc.subject	energy	en_US
dc.subject	climate change	en_US
dc.subject	regulatory control	en_US
dc.subject	non-polluting energy source	en_US
dc.subject	energy efficiency	en_US
dc.subject	energy economics	en_US
dc.subject	environmental financing	en_US
dc.title	New Financial Mechanisms for Clean Energy Investments in Latin America	en_US
dc.type	Publications	en_US
dc.type	Reports, Books and Booklets	en_US
wd.topics	Finance and Economic Transformations	en_US
dc.relation.TableOfContents	Setting the scene: current state of affairs and gaps in clean energy investments in Latin America	en_US
dc.relation.TableOfContents	The regulatory and policy environment for clean energy	en_US
dc.relation.TableOfContents	The clean energy financing barriers	en_US
dc.relation.TableOfContents	Recent initiatives and gaps in financing innovation	en_US
dc.relation.TableOfContents	Proposed interventions to close the gap in clean energy investments	en_US
wd.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/42471