Carbon Business Council Has Published Investment Roadmap to Scale Carbon Removal in Latin America, In Partnership with Leading Companies in the Region
Today marks the release of the Latin America Carbon Removal Investment Roadmap, a new resource designed to support CDR practitioners, policymakers and investors as they work to unlock capital, achieve bankability, and scale CDR in the region.
Published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, this roadmap is the result of eight months of structured dialogue within the Latin America Carbon Removal Working Group, an initiative convened by the Carbon Business Council to catalyze the region’s potential as a global leader in carbon removal. Contributors include BBVA, Boomitra, Carbonfuture, Cercarbono, Exomad Green, Future Climate Group, Howden, InPlanet, KfW, Kita, Mitsubishi Corporation do Brasil, Mombak, Remove, Silica and Tierra Prieta, with support from Ben Rubin, Executive Director, and Haley McKey, Associate Director of Partnerships at the Carbon Business Council. Convergence Blended Finance provided additional insights. Isaac De Leon, Chair of the working group, served as the lead author.
Across pathways and countries, experts who contributed to the publication converged on a central conclusion: many CDR approaches are already scientifically viable, but current capital structures, risk allocation, and policy tools do not yet support project finance at scale in Latin America. The Investment Roadmap surfaces:
Key insights about the current state of play in Latin America, including:
the need for reliable demand and revenue certainty to achieve project bankability
the role of blended finance structures to absorb early risk and unlock private investment
how financing needs to be adapted to the region’s higher cost of capital
High-impact investment levers that focus on what will move the needle fastest in Latin America.
Implementable quick wins - feasible, pilot-ready initiatives that have relatively low barriers and have been validated through Working Group discussions as sensible first moves.
An exploration of how the roadmap's approach can be adapted in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, five countries central to the regional CDR landscape - as well as opportunities for regional collaboration.
The key takeaway: many of the barriers in the region are the same financial challenge, viewed from different angles. Buyers wait for policy; banks wait for contracted revenue; developers wait for capital; and governments wait for market evidence. The Latin America Carbon Removal Investment Roadmap maps out the financial architecture needed to break this cycle and unlock catalytic capital for CDR in the region.
