This working paper provides an overview of climate commitments and actions from non-state
(businesses and civil society) and subnational (cities, subnational regions) actors in the Latin America
and the Caribbean (LAC) region. The paper also sheds light on cooperative climate actions in the land-use sector in the LAC region, which hosts the Amazon rainforest.
The LAC region is the fourth largest pool of individual and cooperative climate actions from close to
1500 non-state and subnational actors. As of October 2021, this pool consisted of 77 regional
governments, 553 cities, 672 companies, 41 investors, and 132 organizations. Cities and companies are
the largest and most rapidly growing actors in the LAC region – between 2020 and 2021 an additional
66 cities and 294 companies engaged in climate action.
By the end of 2021, 351 cities in the LAC region pledged to reach (net) zero emissions through the Race
to Zero initiative and 553 cities reported climate actions on the Global Climate Action Portal. Many cities
and regions of the LAC region have also joined key international cooperative initiatives (ICIs) such as the
Global Covenant of mayors, the C40 initiative, the 2050 Pathways Platform, the Carbon Neutral Cities
Alliance, or the Under2 Coalition.
