This report is part of the OECD project “Enhancing Green Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): From Commitments to Action”, which implements the Environmental Sustainability pillar of the OECD Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme. The project aims to analyse recent trends and progress as well as the challenges and opportunities of the green transition in LAC.
The report draws, inter alia, on the OECD’s long-standing experience in environmental data and indicators, as well as on the Programme on Environmental Information and Indicators and the International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC).
The OECD Programme on Environmental Information and Indicators is steered by the Working Party on Environmental Information (WPEI) of the OECD Environment Policy Committee (EPOC). The aim of this programme is to develop objective, reliable and comparable information on the environment and sustainable development for use in international work, and to support countries in their efforts to improve environmental information systems and establish effective mechanisms to inform the public and decision makers. IPAC was launched at the 2021 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting as part of the Horizontal Project on Building Climate and Economic Resilience. It responds to countries’ need for up-to-date, comparable and comprehensive indicators to support climate policy-making. It has developed an extensive set of indicators for a group of 51 countries and will gradually extend coverage.
This report focuses on climate change in the LAC region. It uses the latest comparable data from OECD and IEA databases available on the OECD statistical platform OECD.stat. They build on data provided regularly by member countries through questionnaires and direct inputs into OECD databases, and on data available from other official OECD and international sources (e.g. FAO, UNFCCC, EMEP, UNEP‑WCMC, WRI). The project helped identify a number of substantial gaps in key data and indicators. The OECD stands ready to work together with the LAC countries and regional partners to advance measurement and improve national information systems.
The report was prepared by Rodrigo Pizarro, Amy Cano Prentice, Myriam Linster and Sarah Miet with technical support from Abenezer Aklilu, Luisa Lutz, Svenja Seeber, and Pinhas Zamorano of the Environment Directorate. Nathalie Girouard, Head of the OECD Environmental Performance and Information Division, provided oversight and guidance. Natasha Cline‑Thomas provided communications support. The authors are grateful to colleagues from the Public Affairs and Communications Directorate who provided technical support for the establishment of interactive graphics including Jonathan Dayot, Claudia Tromboni, Carmen Fernandez Biezma, Bertrand Rivière and Frédéric Lamoitte. The authors thank Sergio Ampudia Giorgana, Eija Kiiskinen, and Dimitra Xynou from the Finance, Investment and Global Relations Division of the OECD Environment Directorate for their valuable support. Special thanks are extended to Rodolfo Lacy for spearheading the expansion of Environment at a Glance to the LAC. This report was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union Facility for Development in Transition. The views herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official position of the European Union nor its Member States.