RT Report
T1 Is the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Building a Sustainable Future?: A Snapshot from Latin America and the Caribbean
T2 ¿Está la recuperación económica de la COVID-19 construyendo un futuro sostenible?: Estado de la Situación en América Latina y el Caribe
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 University of Oxford, 
A2 O'Callaghan, Brian J.
A2 Didarali, Zahra
K1 sustainable development
K1 climate change
K1 zoonotic disease
K1 economic development
K1 economic recession
K1 COVID-19
K1 Latin America and the Caribbean
K1 investment
K1 gender
K1 energy efficiency
K1 renewable energy source
K1 sustainable transport
K1 nature-based solution
K1 capital investment
K1 youth
SN 978-92-807-3875-9
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/36626
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/36626
NO The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has faced some of the worst health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Amid economic and social disruption, inequality in the world’s most unequal continent is on the rise. Following COVID-19, nations in LAC risk missing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reorient their economies for just and sustainable growth, and in so doing pull millions of people out of poverty and achieve greater levels of equality. Without efficient investment and incentives in recovery, the economic impacts of COVID-19 are likely to substantively expand the gap between LAC and advanced economies, as well as the gaps between national population groups. This report presents intermediate results of a broader analysis of the economic responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the LAC region, and how the allocated investments can accelerate the economic recovery phase while meeting climate change goals. The report has been developed thanks to an investment tracking tool, the LAC Recovery Tracker, which analyses over 1,100 policies to provide a live snapshot on spending in the region. The LAC Recovery Tracker is a subset of the larger Global Recovery Observatory.
NO https://recuperacionverde.com/tracker/
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026