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Latin America 2025 outlook: Shifting gears on climate change
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Latin America 2025 outlook: Shifting gears on climate change

Focus turns to the economy and COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

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Michael Molinski
Dec 18, 2024
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Construction on Avenida Liberdade in Brazil. Foto: Portal Brasil/ Ricardo Teles

(Michael Molinski is a senior economist at Trendline Economics. He’s worked for Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo, and previously as a foreign correspondent and editor for Bloomberg News and MarketWatch.)

BELEM, Brazil (Callaway Climate Insights) — Latin America made substantial progress in 2024, reducing some of the long-term effects of climate change. This includes halting the deforestation of the Amazon, advancing alternative energy, implementing carbon capture projects.

In 2025, however, some of that progress is likely to slow in favor of what is already being seen as a bigger priority — the economy.

Latin America is slowing. After GDP soared more than 4% in 2022, the average economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to be just 2.1% this year, according to Statista. Next year it is expected to dip even further.

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