IETA has published the Latin America Climate Summit (LACS) 2025 Report, capturing the key discussions and outcomes from the region’s premier carbon markets gathering, held in São Paulo from 26 -28 August 2025.
With nearly 600 delegates from 38 countries, the Summit highlighted that scaling climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean depends on two essentials:
- Unlocking finance
- Building trust through integrity and inclusion
Key takeaways from the report include:
- Indigenous People, local communities, and forests must remain central to climate action.
- The region now accounts for nearly 20% of the world’s operational carbon pricing instruments and almost a quarter of global credit issuances and retirements.
- Interoperable and harmonised carbon pricing systems are essential to scaling investment and ambition on the road to COP30.
The report also provides insights on Brazil’s ETS development, Article 6 pathways, climate finance opportunities, and the role of regional cooperation.
Read the full LACS report here:
