Climate Finance Roadmap for Livestock in Latin America and the Caribbean

Climate Finance Roadmap for Livestock in Latin America and the Caribbean

17662200

Climate Policy Initiative
31.7.25

English

54 pp.

346 Ki08

Sustainable livestock systems require actionable climate finance roadmaps to enable more actors to invest effectively and at a greater scale, particularly in emerging markets. The ClimateShot Investor Coalition (CLIC) estimates that less than USD 240 million in climate finance goes to global livestock systems, resulting in a USD 181 billion funding gap. The underfunding of livestock systems, which comprise <0.01% of total funding for agrifood systems, is outsized even in the context of the trillion-dollar funding gap to agrifood systems. Agrifood systems received short of USD 100 billion in climate finance in 2021/22, less than 10% of the USD 1.1 trillion required annually until 2030 to reduce emissions and build resilience (CLIC 2025). This roadmap focuses on livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and aims to leverage this sector’s outsized potential for climate mitigation and resilience. Despite being responsible for both millions of rural livelihoods and over half of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the region, LAC livestock systems receive little to no climate investment, presenting untapped opportunities for action. Sustainable practices can strengthen resilience both at the producer level, by reducing exposure to climate shocks and market volatility, and at the system level, by improving nature outcomes more widely.

New Titles
All Bibs