According to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, finance, international cooperation and technology are critical enablers to accelerate climate action. There is sufficient global capital and liquidity to close global investment gaps, but there are barriers to redirecting capital to climate action both within and outside the global financial sector. At the Sustainable … [Read more...] about Collaboration and Partnerships for Climate Finance
Socio-environmental monitoring: How to drive the success and sustainability of development projects
Have you ever wondered how projects financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are supervised in accordance with our socio-environmental policies and guidelines? Or even, what is the purpose of such supervision? Socio-environmental monitoring and supervision is an exciting process: it involves monitoring, reviewing and reporting on a regular basis on the … [Read more...] about Socio-environmental monitoring: How to drive the success and sustainability of development projects
Quiz: How much do you know about environmental and social sustainability?
Our mission at the IDB is to improve lives through the projects we finance, the technical assistance we provide and the knowledge we share. To achieve this, all our partners need to understand the environmental and social risks and impacts to which development projects are exposed and the best ways to address them. The IDB's Environmental and Social Policy Framework (ESPF) … [Read more...] about Quiz: How much do you know about environmental and social sustainability?
It Takes a Village: Innovation and Change in the Pathway Toward Paris Agreement Alignment
December 2023 will mark the 8th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement (PA). Since then, progress has been made toward the treaty’s goals. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), sustainability-linked bonds reported under the Green Bond Transparency Platform over the past two years have achieved the avoidance/reduction of over 36.5M tCO2, - a figure roughly … [Read more...] about It Takes a Village: Innovation and Change in the Pathway Toward Paris Agreement Alignment
Discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation: How to promote equality
Pride Month provides us with an opportunity to remember that, while there is much to celebrate, there is still a long road ahead. The progress of the last decades highlights the importance of articulated work at local and regional levels to detect how discrimination and stereotypes around gender identity and sexual orientation are produced and reproduced. Among the lessons … [Read more...] about Discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation: How to promote equality