Infrastructure is the backbone for economic development, as our region gets more and more exposed to natural disasters and social conflict, and some of them to lower levels of investment and economic stagnation, we cannot help wondering if we are making the right infrastructure investment choices today. We are beginning to realize that sustainability is fundamental to the … [Read more...] about Should Latin America care about Sustainable Infrastructure?
Central banks and financial supervisors are starting to think big on climate change
Since the remarkable “Breaking the Tragedy of Horizon” speech by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, in 2015, climate-related risks entered the agenda of concerns for the financial supervisor and regulator. Two years later, in December 2017, eight central banks and supervisors (including Banco de Mexico) established the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for … [Read more...] about Central banks and financial supervisors are starting to think big on climate change
Technologies transfer…a tool towards food security
Imagine a life in which you go work all day and come back with just enough money to pay for food for your family. A life in which you do not easily have enough money to cover the school fees of your children or to pay for basic medical care. Imagine a life in which, despite hard work and great efforts, your opportunities to improve your condition are very limited. Well, this … [Read more...] about Technologies transfer…a tool towards food security
Videos: How do we identify and mitigate biodiversity risks
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has the most biodiverse habitat in the world, the Amazon rainforest. In addition, this region is the most humid in the world, contains the most extensive wetlands on the planet and has more than 30% of the world's drinking water reserves. Over 10% of its land surface is protected (211 million hectares). Unfortunately, this region suffers … [Read more...] about Videos: How do we identify and mitigate biodiversity risks
Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure
Most people have heard the old Indian parable of how six blind men construe an elephant to be respectively a wall, spear, snake, tree, fan, and a rope because of their physical experience with the animal. A lesson of the parable is that people can easily interpret the same concept in different ways based on their own experiences. Interpretations can be so dissimilar as to lead … [Read more...] about Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure