Georgetown Americas Institute

Climate change threatens the social, political, and economic fabric of societies across the Western Hemisphere. The Latin America and Caribbean region is particularly vulnerable to climate volatility such as droughts, floods, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels. Leaders across the globe must come together to create frameworks for climate financing to foster climate adaptation and mitigation in development strategies. Policies should address the need and urgency of creating comprehensive climate action plans, redirecting public and private spending, as well as foreign investment, to projects that create more resilient infrastructure, provide opportunities for green growth, and aid in the transition to renewable energy sources.

The Georgetown Americas Institute and Eurasia Group hosted a conference, co-sponsored by Earth Commons and the Global Human Development Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and Sempra, that brought together different stakeholders such as academics, policymakers, and business leaders from the Latin America and Caribbean region and the United States to discuss recent trends on climate change policy and sustainability, the impact on the region, and how countries can contribute to this existential challenge facing humanity.

This conference took place in-person and streamed via YouTube.  Read the event summary here.

This conference was sponsored by the Georgetown Americas Institute and Eurasia Group, and co-sponsored by the Earth Commons and the Global Human Development Program at the  Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Sempra.