With support from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the Recycle Organics Program has published a new report that provides valuable insights into large-scale composting, home composting and anaerobic digestion, along with practical recommendations for implementing these sustainable organic waste management projects. The report presents and analyzes successful and innovative case studies and initiatives happening around the world to showcase how countries and municipalities can implement, replicate and accelerate green waste management projects on the ground to create co-benefits for communities.

To raise awareness about the importance of separation at the source, the Recycle Organics Program—with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada—has published a new report that showcases adaptable and innovative organic waste management incentives to promote and encourage sustainable solutions for managing organic waste.

The report analyzes successful case studies from LAC countries and communities that can be replicated across the region, creating incentives for organic waste source separation. By highlighting successful strategies, outreach campaigns and incentives, the goal is to inspire the adoption of effective practices that contribute to a greener, more sustainable future for managing organic waste in the region and beyond.

Este documento busca describir el estado actual de los países de América Latina en la adopción de instrumentos de precio al carbono, así como mapear las necesidades y prioridades de los países en su preparación para la implementación del Artículo 6, identificando las brechas y oportunidades.

En América Latina, las emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) varían significativamente entre países, destacándose algunos sectores como energía, agricultura y uso de la tierra en las Contribuciones Determinadas a Nivel Nacional (CDN). La mayoría de los países han incrementado la ambición en sus nuevas CDN, centrando sus esfuerzos en sectores clave para cumplir con los compromisos del Acuerdo de París.

La implementación del Artículo 6 del Acuerdo de París se presenta como una herramienta relevante para el cumplimiento de los compromisos climáticos de los países permitiendo la colaboración mediante la transferencia de Resultados de Mitigación Internacionalmente Transferidos (ITMO, por sus siglas en inglés) bajo enfoques cooperativos (Artículo 6.2), la participación en el Mecanismo de Acreditación del Acuerdo de París (Artículo 6.4) y la cooperación internacional de los enfoques no relacionados con los mercados (Artículo 6.8), los cuales impulsan la movilización de recursos, fomentan la innovación y refuerzan la acción climática en la región.

The report, Progress Report on the Operationalization of Article 6 in Latin America, highlights the current state and progress of implementing Article 6 cooperative approaches in the region and identifies key regional needs and priorities. The research, based on extensive interviews with national leaders from seven countries tasked with Article 6 implementation, was conducted in partnership with CCAP and the UN Climate Change Regional Collaboration Centre for Latin America (RCC Latin America).

This research is part of a two-phase project designed to assess the progress on operationalizing Article 6 across 17 Latin American countries. The first phase presented in this report includes seven countries: Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. A second phase will cover the remaining 10 countries in the region. The report is currently available in Spanish, with an English version expected to be published in the coming weeks.

Esta guía proporciona una metodología orientativa para que los países en desarrollo estimen y realicen el seguimiento de los flujos de financiamiento climático a nivel nacional, con el fin de apoyar la implementación de sus CDN. Se centra en la recopilación de datos sobre el apoyo financiero requerido y recibido, en cumplimiento con los requisitos de presentación de informes establecidos en el MTR del Acuerdo de París. La aplicación de esta guía ayudará a los países en los siguientes objetivos:

• Mejorar el uso de los recursos públicos destinados a la acción climática.
• Movilizar y optimizar el uso de recursos adicionales de financiamiento climático.
• Presentar informes sobre financiamiento climático a nivel nacional e internacional.

The ICAT Climate Finance Transparency Guide provides methodological guidance that helps developing country policymakers to establish and implement national climate finance transparency frameworks. It focuses on collecting data on financial needs and finance flows, aligning with the reporting requirements under the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, and taking a holistic approach to enable to serve as a basis for implementing climate action.

The guide’s step-by-step approach covers the following five phases and offers levels of complexity to meet the needs of countries at different stages of readiness to track, measure, manage and report on climate finance:

- Scoping, planning, and institutional arrangements
- Defining and classifying climate finance
- Ex-ante climate finance needs assessment
- Climate finance tracking
- Evaluation: from transparency to enhanced climate action

Climate transparency is more than a reporting requirement under the Paris Agreement – it’s a strategic tool to unlock the finance countries need to meet their climate goals.

As nations update their national climate plans (NDCs) in 2025, a new case study from UN Climate Change’s #Together4Transparency initiative, developed in partnership with CCAP, highlights how strong transparency systems can help mobilize climate finance and drive global action.

The study shows that when countries embed transparency into their climate reporting systems, they can more effectively pinpoint investment opportunities in high-priority areas, identify financing gaps and attract both public and private funding.

By aligning transparency frameworks with national priorities and capacities, governments can clearly demonstrate their climate progress and finance needs, building trust and enabling coordinated support.

Las taxonomías de finanzas sostenibles son una herramienta clave para alinear los flujos financieros con los objetivos ambientales y sociales. Este nuevo Informe de Resultados de la Encuesta, desarrollado por el Observatorio de Taxonomías de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), que copreside el Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) junto con el Grupo de Financiamiento Climático de Latinomérica y el Caribe (GFLAC), sistematiza percepciones, prioridades y desafíos que enfrentan los países de la región para implementar sus taxonomías de forma efectiva.

El Informe de Resultados permite comprender el panorama inicial sobre los beneficios, barreras y condiciones habilitantes para el uso e implementación de taxonomías, con base en las respuestas de actores clave del ecosistema financiero, regulatorio y técnico en la región.

Togo has ambitious climate change mitigation targets, including a 32% reduction in methane and a 28.1% reduction in overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the waste sector by 2030, outlined in its current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Togo has demonstrated a strong commitment to GHG mitigation through its engagement in the Global Methane Pledge and ambitious waste sector targets highlighted above. To support these efforts, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) and ImplementaSur, under the Recycle Organics program and with support from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), collaborated with the Ministry of the Environment and Forest Resources (MERF) to develop two key policy instruments to reduce SLCP emissions from solid waste: The National Roadmap for Togo and The Action Plan for Greater Lomé. While the Action Plan is exclusive to Togo’s capital city, the National Roadmap takes a comprehensive country approach, addressing the needs of small and medium-sized towns and rural areas.

Togo has ambitious climate change mitigation targets, including a 32% reduction in methane and a 28.1% reduction in overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the waste sector by 2030.

To reach these targets, its capital city Greater Lomé (or Lomé, for short), is crucial due to its increasing population, economic activity and waste generation. Furthermore, Lomé bolsters stronger solid waste management (SWM) infrastructure and institutional capacity compared to the rest of the country. The city has seen recent progress in the improvement of its SWM sector, including notable infrastructure investments like the Aképé Sanitary Landfill (CET d’Aképé).

However, Lomé, and Togo as a whole, must overcome several key challenges to improve how its SWM sector operates, while mitigating harmful greenhouse gas emissions, including short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane and black carbon. To implement the sector’s climate mitigation targets, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) and ImplementaSur, under the Recycle Organics program and with support from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), collaborated with the Ministry of the Environment and Forest Resources (MERF) to develop a National Waste Management Roadmap and an Action Plan for Greater Lomé.

This Guidebook is a practical, step-by-step, living tool that gives governments and organizations practical guidance on developing enabling public policies and plans to achieve their methane-reduction goals—accelerating climate action across the Global South.

More than a compilation, it presents a dynamic framework shaped by methodologies and real-world, regional insights from organizations and governments across LAC. This hands-on resource is designed to guide users through planning, funding and implementation, allowing them to reference it at any stage of development, revisit chapters as projects and plans evolve and use it as a framework to scale impact.

Despite being on the front lines of climate impacts, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are leading with urgency—advancing practical, high-impact climate solutions to rapidly reduce methane emissions from the waste sector. The Recycle Organics (RO) Program, supported by an $8 million CAD contribution from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), has helped turn this ambition into action from 2023 to 2026.

By working directly with municipal representatives, national governments, local partners and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in six SIDS across the Caribbean and Pacific (Belize, Guyana, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Samoa and Fiji), the RO Program has accelerated the development and implementation of organic waste management systems to deliver measurable environmental, economic and social benefits to these island nations. To sustain this momentum in all beneficiary countries, the RO Program has identified several opportunities that are outlined in the Impact and Insights on Organic Waste Management in SIDS Report.