This report was authored by Christian Spano – SYSTEMIQ; Paolo Natali and Charles Cannon – Rocky Mountain Institute; Suzanne Greene – Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Osvaldo Urzúa – independent Senior Advisor. It was authored and edited by Adriana Unzueta and Carlos Sucre at the Special Group of Mining, Geothermal Energy and Hydrocarbons at the Infrastructure and Energy Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank, which sponsored the research contained within