Ulf Narloch

Latin America and the Caribbean does not have the infrastructure it needs, or deserves, given its income. Many argue that the solution is to spend more; by contrast, this report has one main message: Latin America can dramatically narrow its infrastructure service gap by spending efficiently on the right things.

Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together.

This report focuses on the decarbonization aspects of green growth, looking at the planning instruments, policy mix, and financial structure that can help deliver what is needed to keep warming as close as possible to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.