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Session 1 - Key Environmental Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in LAC

Related document: Gestión ambiental en América Latina y el Caribe: Evolución, tendencias y principales prácticas)

Session 2 - Sustainability, a Business Model for Multilateral Development Banks

Related documents:
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Sustainability, a Business Model for Multilateral Development Banks?
CSR and the World Bank

Session 3 - Assessing Progress in Environmental Governance in the Region

Related documents:
Environmental Governance and Institutional Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Governance at IFC
Evaluación de Proyectos de Desarrollo Institucional Ambiental: un Análisis Comparativo
Descripción de la Metodología para la "Revisión y Evaluación del Fortalecimiento Institucional Ambiental
Assessing progress in environmental governance in the Andean Region

Session 4 - Mainstreaming the Environment as Cross Sector Dimension of Development

Presentation: Mainstreaming the Environment into the Priority Areas of IDB?s Institutional Strategy, by Frances Seymour (WRI)

Related documents:
Mainstreaming the Environment into the Priority Areas of IDB?s Institutional Strategy (Presentation)
Mainstreaming the Environment Into the Inter-American Development Bank?s Institutional Strategies

Session 5

Presentation: Conservation Management Alternatives Based on Environmental Services - Andean Community of Nations, by Xavier Silva and Fabian Rodriguez (IDB-TNC Technical Cooperation)

Related documents:Conservation Management Alternatives Based On Environmental Services

Session 6

Presentation: New Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy: Key Issues, by Joseph Milewski (IDB) and Ricardo Quiroga (IDB)

Presentation: Importance of Project Monitoring and Sustainability, by Camille Gaskin-Reyes (IDB)

Presentation: Measuring, monitoring and managing for environmental results and risks, by Arne Paulson (IDB)

Related web site: Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy

Related documents:
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Measuring, monitoring and managing for environmental results and risks




PARALLEL SESSIONS:


Session 1a - A Country Environmental Analysis as a New Mainstreaming Tool

Presentation: Country Environmental Analysis: The case of Belize, by Lawrence Pratt (INCAE)

Presentation: Country Environmental Analysis: A World Bank Case? by Stefan Schwager (WB)

Related documents:
Country Environmental Analysis: The case of Belize
Country Environmental Analysis: A World Bank Case

Session 1b - Managing Natural Hazards through Risk Financing

Presentation: Overview of IDB Approach to Disaster Risk Management and the Role of Financial Markets, by Edgardo Demaestri (IDB) and Kari Keipi (IDB)

Related document: Overview of IDB Approach to Disaster Risk Management Seminar on Managing Natural Hazards through Risk Financing

Presentation: Exploiting International Financial Markets to Manage Natural Disaster Risks in Latin America, by Ivar Petterson (Centre for Food Policy / NAERI)

Related document: Exploiting Financial Instruments to improve Natural Disaster Risk Management

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Planning and Financial Protection to Survive Disasters
Disaster Risk Management

Session 2a - Emerging Trade and Environment Agenda in the Region: Meeting Opportunities and Challenges

Presentation: An Overview of the Status of Trade Negotiations in the Region, by Jaime Granados (IDB)

Related documents:

Trade and Environment: Status of Regional Negotiations in the Americas
Comercio para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe

Presentation: Assessing Environmental Capacity Needs, by Ana Maria Majano (INCAE)

Related document: Trade and Environment: Opportunities and capacity needs after CAFTA

Session 2b - Innovative Mechanisms Participation in Bank Operations. Project Design Independent Monitoring and Accountability

Presentation: Modalities of Participation in IDB Projects, by Anne Deruyttere (IDB)

Related document: Consultation and Participation in IDB Projects: Lessons Learned, Opportunities and Challenges

Presentation: Highlights of the New Bank Citizen Participation Strategy, by Janine Perfil (IDB)

Related document: Estrategia para Promover la Participación Ciudadana en las Actividades del Banco

Session 3a

Presentation: Urban Environmental Management in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, by Carlos Pineda (IDB)

Related document: Municipal Development Program Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Session 3b

Presentation: Opportunities for the Application of Cultural Land Use Analysis Methodology, by Regis Caloz (EPFL)

Related documents:
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CLAN - Methodology
Cultural Land Use

Session 4a

Presentation: The Political Economy of Conservation and Resource Extraction in Galapagos, by Steven Stone (IDB)

Related document: The Political Economy of Conservation and Resource Extraction in Galápagos

Session 4b

Presentation: Managing Natural Hazards through Risk Financing in Chile, by Armen Kouyoumdjian (Independent Consultant)

Related document: Managing Natural Hazards through Risk Financing



WORKING LUNCH 1 (Parallel Session)

Session 1

Presentation: International Experience and Perspectives on SEA, by Olivia Bina (Universidad de Lisboa)

Related document: What can we learn from international experience?

Presentation: Usefulness of SEA from a World Bank Perspectives, by Kulsum Ahmed (WB)

Related document: Strategic Environmental Assessment at the World Bank

Related documents:
Strategic Environmental Assessment Guidance
SEA guidelines para CCLIP

Session 2 - Exploring Conservation Data Sharing ? Potential Partnerships and Modalities



WORKING LUNCH 2 (Parallel Session)

Session 1

Presentation: Financing Environmental Innovation, Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and Carbon Finance Facility (CF), by Michael Toman (IDB)

Related document: Financing Environmental Innovation: Carbon Finance and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

Session 2 - Environmental Additionality of Multilateral Finance Institutions Private Sector Projects

Related document: Environmental Additionality of Multilateral Finance Institutions: Private Sector Projects

Last updated: 01/16/07