The climate agenda also goes to the polls this 2024 in Latin America. Our leaders, those who already govern and those who will arrive, have a legal obligation to make climate action a development policy.

The political panorama of Latin America is permeated by situations that have pressured the region for decades. Economic inequality, migration and the overwhelming escalation of violence, which has even reached environmental defenders. These have had an obvious electoral impact, and in some cases result in climate change dropping several more places on the list of development priorities.