Energy Transition And Climate Change In The Americas, A Systematic Review For Capacity Building

Abstract

Developing countries, especially Latin America and Venezuela, face the challenge of implementing a low-emission development model (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and subsequent multilateral agreements signed: the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement). In this context, this systematic review was intended to describe the studies that develop training in Energy Transition and Climate Change (TEyCC) in countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, in order to draw conclusions that provide inputs to the professional in this field, as an effort in climate action and sustainable development. The research followed the approach and protocol of Campbell and Cochrane Collaboration for systematic reviews, of descriptive character, assuming own approaches of rapid review. Qualitative studies and quantitative evidence in journals of academic and scientific impact on capacity building were systematically collected and synthesized, and official institutions of relevance in the subject were reviewed to determine official positions in the Americas and the Caribbean between 2015 and 2022, and finally, the subject was investigated in Germany, establishing a comparative reference. The research evidenced the different progress of the countries with respect to training in TEyCC, highlighting achievements in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, but demonstrating the incipient progress in all the others; such as climate action, supported by education and training.