Hoja de Ruta desde América Latina y el Caribe para la transición energética justa

This roadmap, developed by civil society organizations, provides a strategic framework for Latin America and the Caribbean to transition away from fossil fuels while ensuring climate justice and economic diversification. It categorizes countries by their fossil fuel production profiles—booming, mature, or importers—and sets specific milestones for the supply, demand, and electricity sectors. The document emphasizes the need to move beyond a primary-export economic model, proposing the development of regional value chains, labor reconversion, and a legal shift toward recognizing the nature as a subject of rights. It also calls for a reform of international climate finance to avoid further indebtedness and the implementation of binding participatory governance based on human and environmental rights.

• The region exhibits a strong structural dependence on fossil fuels, with approximately two-thirds of the energy matrix relying on them and oil participation exceeding the global average.
• Economic dependence on fossil fuels is significant, with an average of 3.9% of regional GDP depending on oil and gas, reaching as high as 10% in Colombia.
• The roadmap identifies a critical gap in current transition models: they focus on reducing fossil fuel consumption (demand) but lack explicit goals for phasing out production and infrastructure (supply).
• To achieve a 1.5°C compatible trajectory, the region must implement a planned decline of coal, oil, and gas production, including the suspension of new exploration rounds and moratoria on fracking and deep-water offshore projects.
• The goal for the electricity sector is to reach near 100% renewable generation by 2050, supported by regional interconnection and a shift toward decentralized, community-owned energy sources (at least 20% of capacity).
• Economic diversification is essential to avoid the region remaining a mere provider of raw materials; this requires industrialization, regional value chains, and labor reconversion for workers in fossil sectors.
• Current climate finance is insufficient and problematic, with 80% delivered as loans, which increases regional debt and limits the capacity for a just transition.
• The roadmap advocates for a legal transformation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights and the tipification of ecocide as an international crime to sanction grave environmental damage.
• Governance must shift toward binding participatory mechanisms, including the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the standards of the Escazú Agreement.
• The document proposes excluding climate and energy transition policies from international investor-state arbitration mechanisms, such as ICSID, to protect the regulatory space of states.

APA

Transforma (2026). Hoja de Ruta desde América Latina y el Caribe para la transición energética justa. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2606-Hoja-de-Ruta-LAC_TEJ.pdf

Chicago

Transforma. Hoja de Ruta desde América Latina y el Caribe para la transición energética justa. 2026. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2606-Hoja-de-Ruta-LAC_TEJ.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{transforma2026hoja, author = {{Transforma}}, title = {{Hoja de Ruta desde América Latina y el Caribe para la transición energética justa}}, institution = {Transforma}, year = {2026}, month = jun, url = {https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2606-Hoja-de-Ruta-LAC_TEJ.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }