Nature-based Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean: Support from the Inter-American Development Bank

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmie Oliver ◽  
Suzanne Ozment ◽  
Alfred Grunwaldt ◽  
Mariana Silva Paredes ◽  
Gregory Watson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Ecosystem Degradation ◽  
The Caribbean

Governments across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) face challenges in extending and maintaining infrastructure to serve their populations, especially as climate change and ecosystem degradation endanger communities and infrastructure assets across the region. To help address these challenges, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) aims to increase its support of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in accordance with the banks 2020 Environmental and Social Sustainability Mainstreaming Action Plan. This Issue Brief serves two main functions. First, it describes IDB's growing focus on NBS and provides a tour of IDBs main offerings regarding NBS project support and investment. Second, it serves as a baseline of IDBs activities related to NBS from which the bank and partners can build upon moving forward. Going forward, IDB will ramp up support for clients to incorporate NBS considerations and opportunity analysis in country agreements and throughout all stages of project preparation, from investment identification to execution.

IDB Group and Climate Action

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Multilateral Development Banks ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Development Banks ◽  
Bank Group

As one of the leading development partners for Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group) is fully committed to lead by example on climate change action. Since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the IDB Group has provided over $20 billion in Climate Finance, amounting to about 60% of all Climate Finance to the region from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).

scholarly journals Effects of Climate Change on Exposure to Coastal Flooding in Latin America and the Caribbean

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. e0133409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja G. Reguero ◽  
Iñigo J. Losada ◽  
Pedro Díaz-Simal ◽  
Fernando J. Méndez ◽  
Michael W. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Coastal Flooding ◽  
The Caribbean

Spotlight: 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Petrie ◽  
Clara García-Millán ◽  
María Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Insight Into

There is a wealth of conversation around the world today on the future of the workplace and the skills required for children to thrive in that future. Without certain core abilities, even extreme knowledge or job-specific skills will not be worth much in the long run. To address these issues, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and HundrED conducted this Spotlight project with the goal of identifying and researching leading innovations that focus on 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Spotlight program was supported by J.P. Morgan. The purpose of this project is to shine a spotlight, and make globally visible, leading education innovations from Latin America and the Caribbean doing exceptional work on developing 21st Century Skills for all students, teachers, and leaders in schools today. The main aims of this Spotlight are to: Discover the leading innovations cultivating 21st century skills in students globally; understand how schools or organizations can implement these innovations; gain insight into any required social or economic conditions for these innovations to be effectively introduced into a learning context; celebrate and broadcast these innovations to help them spread to new countries. All the findings of the Spotlight in 21st Century Skills are included in this report.

Analysis of International Climate Change Agreements in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
pp. 1465-1490
Author(s):  
Diana Belem López Cruz ◽  
Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga ◽  
Gabriela Narcizo de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
International Climate ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
International Climate Change

Climate Change Projections in Latin America and the Caribbean: Review of Existing Regional Climate Models' Outputs

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Alberto Ríos Flores ◽  
Alejandro Pablo Taddia ◽  
Alfred Grunwaldt ◽  
Russel Jones ◽  
Richard Streeter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Models ◽  
Climate Change Projections ◽  
The Caribbean
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