Advancing Corporate Clean Energy Adoption Through Innovative Partnerships in Latin America
This year, the eyes of the world will turn to Latin America as the region will host the COP30 Conference in Belem, Brazil. Building on the spirit of mutirão – a collective mobilization—Brazil is positioning COP30 as the critical moment where high-level representatives will hold high-level conversations around the strategies to shift climate commitments into tangible outcomes. This comes together with other key moments, such as the recently submitted National Determined Contributions, where countries defined more ambitious climate targets.
Under COP 30’s Action Agenda, the thematic axis “Transitioning Energy, Industry and Transport” places the energy transition at the center of the conference’s priorities. Three of its objectives — tripling renewable energy capacity, doubling energy efficiency, and transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner — are fully aligned with our new initiative: the Latin America Clean Energy Coalition (LACEC). In sharing the ambition to advance energy system transitions for the industrial and commercial sector, LACEC offers a platform to amplify a collective voice of like-minded partners to advance regional corporate clean energy efforts in support of these global objectives.
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This event will highlight the importance of accelerating clean energy to unleash investment and policy improvement across the region through a coalition of partners representing industrial and commercial energy demand and supply sectors and financiers. LACEC seeks to align the world’s leading clean energy buyers, project developers, and financiers to support decision makers, utilities, and energy regulators in innovating corporate procurement mechanisms and deploying cost-effective and commercially readily available clean technologies across Latin America. The launch of LACEC will enable governments to make informed decisions, design timely policy responses, attract climate finance, and achieve corporate clean energy targets.
