An IDB program to provide loans and grant financing to Jamaican private sector groups and community-based organizations for initiatives to reduce their risk to natural disasters and adapt to the impacts of climate change will be carried out with financing from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). Examples of initiatives that would be financed by the PPCR … [Read more...] about Private Sector and Community Groups Carry Out Adaptation Projects
An Adaptation Program that Focuses on Water Resources
Low-income farmers in Jamaica will implement a comprehensive set of water storage and conservation measures to conserve water and soil resources and increase resilience to climate change in an IDB project financed by the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). The project will be carried out in vulnerable sections of the Jamaica’s Rio Minho and Rio Bueno River Basins, … [Read more...] about An Adaptation Program that Focuses on Water Resources
Comprehensive Strategy to Identify Measures for Reducing Climate Change Impacts
Jamaica will design a broad-based strategy for reducing the economic and social effects of severe weather events and other climate change impacts in an IDB knowledge and capacity building initiative financed by the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). Jamaica’s size and geographic location make it particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. More extreme … [Read more...] about Comprehensive Strategy to Identify Measures for Reducing Climate Change Impacts
Energy Efficiency for SMEs in Colombia
Energy services companies to increase their role in promoting energy efficiency for SMEs The IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) will prepare a Clean Technology Fund (CTF) project to foster the use of energy efficiency technologies by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia through the development of a market for performance-based contracting and … [Read more...] about Energy Efficiency for SMEs in Colombia
Hotels, hospitals, clinics receive investments to boost energy efficiency
The Colombian national development bank Bancóldex is targeting the country’s fast-growing hotel and hospital/clinic industries in an IDB program financed by the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to provide investment financing and technical cooperation to decrease energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and increase competitiveness. The program will address … [Read more...] about Hotels, hospitals, clinics receive investments to boost energy efficiency