The Environmental and Social Safeguards Unit (ESG) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is pleased to announce the launch of a new learning platform on managing environmental and social risks. With this new feature, all our online courses are in one place. In 2016, ESG began offering online training to increase the capacity of counterpart government officials who … [Read more...] about Enroll now! A new learning platform for managing environmental and social risk
Infrastructure: Moving from a Pipeline to a Business Model Approach
The thriving cities of tomorrow will be sustainable cities. To meet the new demands and opportunities of rapid urbanization, climate change and technology, they will need innovative urban services that address challenges such as getting people from home to work safely and efficiently, lighting streets more cost-effectively, or reducing runoff and risk of flooding. Alternative … [Read more...] about Infrastructure: Moving from a Pipeline to a Business Model Approach
The Future of Agriculture
The Future of Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Precision Agriculture on Medium- and Small-Scale Farms Precision agriculture (or PA) is the next wave of agricultural innovation. While innovations from the 19th and 20th centuries embodied scientific knowledge in the form of inputs or devices that could be easily used by producers, PA is based on electronic … [Read more...] about The Future of Agriculture
The Business Case for Climate Resilience
How can businesses, large and small, make their supply chains more climate resilient and simultaneously more profitable? Almost any supply chain, but particularly those that are dependent on natural resources, will experience the impacts of a changing climate in all its parts. A recent study by Acclimatise for the IDB’s PROADAPT program, shows that assessing climate change … [Read more...] about The Business Case for Climate Resilience
Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017
Check out our collection of the 10 most popular blogs in 2017. [View the story "Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017" on Storify] … [Read more...] about Viva Sustainability: 10 most viewed blogs of 2017