The Andean Community (CAN) was established in 1969 with the objective of achieving an integral, balanced and autonomous development of its member states, and its central axis of constitution is the Cartagena Agreement. It is made up of 4 countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru; 5 associated countries: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; and an observer country: Spain (CAN, 2020a).
The member countries not only share the Andes Mountains, similar customs and a biodiversity that is not limited to their territories; also common problems such as the impacts of climate change (CC). In fact, they are the most vulnerable countries to the effects of CC (ND-Gain, 2020), due to their geographical, economic and social particularities.
In this sense, in order to pursue sustainable development and with community environmental management policies, in 2002 the Biodiversity Strategy of the Countries of the Andean Tropics (ERB) was approved. This strategy marked the birth of the Andean Environmental Agenda (AAA), a guiding instrument for subregional actions on environmental policy and management issues; based on three main axes: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Water Resources (CAN, 2013, 4).
Recently, the member countries have agreed to prepare an Andean Environmental Charter, which will establish the principles to combat CC and its effects, in addition to promoting the rational use of the region's biodiversity (CAN, 2020b, 3). This takes place in a post-Covid-19 scenario, in which government measures not only focus on economic reactivation, but also seek to migrate to an economy with fewer impacts on the environment, being an opportunity to invest in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
However, the actions proposed by the countries to cushion the socioeconomic impact generated by the pandemic may not be aligned to that end. In this sense, the following article aims to demonstrate the relationship between the economic reactivation measures of the CAN member countries and their GHG reduction goals. This analysis will be complemented with policy proposals that increase efforts towards a green reactivation, which will allow to enhance the decarbonization of the countries analyzed.
