"Policy recommendations
- Latin America will be amongst the regions most affected by climate change. Nevertheless, countries in this region strongly rely on resource extraction and carbon-intensive activities for economic development. Robust green and just-transition policies are crucial to achieving regional and global climate targets, for which funding remains a significant challenge.
- Governments should ensure that workers, particularly informal workers, are duly represented in the design and implementation of just-transition policies. Robust social protection programmes should also be developed that specifically target workers who are at risk of losing their jobs as a result of climate policies.
- A strategic alliance between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU) may contribute to just transition through, amongst other things, free trade agreements and the development of more stringent environmental and labour standards in the region."

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