NEARSHORING AND RENEWABLE ENERGY: - BUILDING ON THE LOS ANGELES SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS

Department of State We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Beatriz García Nice of the Latin American Program for her steadfast research and logistical support of the April 2022 conference and this report; to Ambassador David Lane (ret.), Ambassador Kathleen Doherty (ret), and Moriah McCune of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands for their gracious hosting of the conference and p. [...] Executive Summary On April 19-21, 2022, just weeks before the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Ange- les, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Latin American Program at the Wilson Center convened experts to consider two themes of critical importance to the United States and its partners in the Americas: climate change and the transi- tion to renewable energy; and the relocation of. [...] Nearshoring and Renewable Energy: Building on the Los Angeles Summit of the Americas On April 19-21, 2022, just weeks before the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 6-10, the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Latin American Program at the Wilson Center convened a high-level group of experts to consider two themes of critical importance to the United States and its partn. [...] Sunnylands and the Summit of the Americas The ideas advanced by many of the Sunnylands participants resonated powerfully in Los Angeles. [...] Taken together, the ideas developed at the April conference at Sunnylands and the policy proposals signed and launched in Los Angeles suggest a promising pathway toward accelerated nearshoring and friend-shoring and the rapid development of renewable energy in the Americas: • Amidst the many pressing problems facing world leaders, climate change, the transition to renewable energy, and the reconfi.