Development strategies for Latin America and Caribbean due to the shift of the energy-environmental paradigms

Nowadays, the configuration of the world economy faces a deep productive-technological reorganization, which main feature is the appearance on the scene of the emerging economies of the semi-periphery (Brazil, Russia, India, China, among others). The rise of these economies should result in the medium and long term in a reset level of the International Division of Labor and the relationship "core central body - semi-periphery - periphery", with profound impacts on the geopolitical hierarchy of the world economy. This change will tend to be more intense due to the paradigm shift now lived in simultaneous and interactive, integrated energy and environmental (energy-environmental paradigms), in which it is moving from a paradigm of Fossil Fuels for the Paradigm of Source renewable energy, which both generate and insert a new perspective in relation to end use of energy, the use of the natural resource base and the development model itself. This is the context in which today is part of Latin America and the Caribbean, that is simultaneously confronted by two surroundings, namely the new environment-hierarchical and hegemonic geopolitical for characterizing the world economy and the new surroundings to be represented by the transition-energy the environment. These are the two realities that will condition the development strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean.