RT Report
T1 New Financial Mechanisms for Clean Energy Investments in Latin America
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 Latin America
K1 energy
K1 climate change
K1 regulatory control
K1 non-polluting energy source
K1 energy efficiency
K1 energy economics
K1 environmental financing
SN 978-92-807-4027-1
YR 2023
FD 2023-05
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/42471
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/42471
NO 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.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 22, 2026