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
Latin America and Caribbean Innovations Point Way on Climate Change
As leaders gather in Paris this week for a summit on tackling climate change, and how our global financial system should evolve to be part of the solution, skeptics may wonder whether most of the world’s cash-strapped countries really have the incentives and the capacity to do much. After all, even wealthy countries are struggling to address what is undoubtedly the … [Read more...] about Latin America and Caribbean Innovations Point Way on Climate Change
What can Carbon Prices Achieve in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Getting to net-zero emissions is essential to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. A key question is how much carbon pricing can help reduce emissions, stimulate low-carbon investment, and fund emission captures. Indeed, carbon pricing generates various expectations. Some expect carbon pricing to incentivize technological change consistent with full decarbonization. Others … [Read more...] about What can Carbon Prices Achieve in Latin America and the Caribbean?