Climate Policy Insights Hub | Susana Paola Navas

A smiling woman standing among lush green plants with text “Avanzando hacia la implementación de las NDC en el sector AFOLU Barreras, brechas, retos y oportunidades en América Latina y el Caribe.” Image connects to climate change and NDC implementation under UNFCCC in agriculture and land use sectors.

Avanzando hacia la Implementación de las NDCs en el Sector AFOLU en América Latina y el Caribe

For ministers and policymakers, it provides a roadmap for aligning climate targets with rural development and food security, drawing on practical examples such as Uruguay´s sustainability - linked bonds and Peru´s mitigation registry. It also offers evidence on concrete barriers - such as reliance on international finance, weaknesses in emissions inventories, and gaps in land-use planning - that negotiators can use to prioritize technical and financial support in multilateral forums.

Cities Delivering on the Global Stocktake and Global Goal on Adaptation

For policymakers, this brief reframes cities as execution platform that can translate national climate ambition into measurable delivery. It is relevant because it links governance design, finance allocation, and sectoral implementation to near-term climate outcomes that ministers and negotiators can actually influence.

Blue report cover reading “Experience, Opportunities, Challenges, Barriers and Needs for the UAE Dialogue Submission to the UNFCCC” from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Text references the global stocktake and international cooperation on climate change under UNFCCC processes.

Experience, Opportunities, Challenges, Barriers and Needs for Implementing the Outcomes of the Global Stocktake - Submission to the UNFCCC (UAE Dialogue)

For policymakers, ministers and negotiators, this submission is relevant because it linking climate ambition to the practical machinery of delivery: NDC design, policy sequencing, and international cooperation.

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Yearbook of Climate Action 2025

Ministers and government officials as they develop NDCs 3.0, which must be informed by the first Global Stocktake. The report provides a blueprint for embedding national goals into local and regional plans to ensure political viability.

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Implementing the Global Stocktake Energy Goals: Why Economic Transitions Matters

For ministers, understanding that today’s clean technologies can replace 75% of fossil fuel demand is vital to avoiding the risk of stranded assets. The source provides a roadmap for using LT-LEDS as planning frameworks to harmonize social and economic priorities with climate targets, offering a clear path for public officials.

The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025: Climate Action to Overcome Development Traps

This report drives viable implementation like carbon taxes and biodiversity financing, offering politically feasible paths to align fiscal tools with NDCs, mobilize EU/Global Gateway funds, and enhance bargaining in Paris Agreement Article 6 pilots.

Climate Obstruction in the UNFCCC

This brief delivers value: 1) Operational diagnostics, 2) political viability, and 3) COP implementation. Includes concrete COP30 scenarios.

Participation, Power, and Process: Fixing Climate Negotiations

The brief offers data-backed strategies to counter exclusion tactics, secure better finance/NDC outcomes, and leverage presidencies for national gains, enhancing political viability through equitable processes that build trust and ambition in a consensus-bound system.

Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement: Synthesis Report

This report quantify sector-specific costs (e.g., energy/AFOLU mitigation) and conditional needs that hinge on Article 6 markets, REDD+ payments, and blended finance.