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Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment
Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment
The IDB has long sought to provide leadership in promoting development that is environmentally and socially sound in Latin America and the Caribbean and ensuring that its own operations are sustainable. In keeping with this role, and as part of an extensive public consultation process on the proposed Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy that the Bank is currently developing, IDB President Enrique V. Iglesias formed the Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment in August 2004. This advisory group was created not only to advise on the Bank's draft Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy, but also to look more broadly at increasing the Bank's role in supporting countries in the Region to achieve sustainable development.
The nine-member Panel was comprised of: Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior; José Goldemberg, Environment Secretary for the State of São Paulo; Stephen Green, HSBC Group Chief Executive; Lynn Holowesko, former Ambassador for the Environment and Chair of the Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission; Yolanda Kakabadse, former IUCN President; Thomas Lovejoy, President, the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Juan Mayr Maldonado former Minister of the Environment for Colombia; William Reilly, former U.S. EPA Administrator; and Maurice Strong, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations. The Panel met on two occasions. Their first meeting took place in September 2004, and the second in January 2005. The Final Report of Recommendations was received on February 23, 2005.
The Inter-American Development Bank's Management welcomed the Panel's Report and thanks the Panel for its insightful recommendations as it prepares to send a final draft of the Environment and Safeguard Compliance Policy to the Board of Executive Directors for consideration and approval.
Documents
- Letter from President Luis Alberto Moreno to Blue Ribbon Panel (June 15, 2007)
- Letter from Blue Ribbon Panel to President Luis Alberto Moreno (May 8, 2007)
- Implementing the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment (July 31, 2006)
- Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment Report of Recommendations (February 23, 2005)
- IDB Management Response to the Blue Ribbon Panel (May 16, 2005)
- Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy
Press Releases
- Enhancing IDB sustainability performance (July 28, 2006)
- IDB management welcomes recommendations of Blue Ribbon Panel (May 19, 2005)
- Blue Ribbon Panel Provides Recommendations on Environment (March 10, 2005)
- Focusing on the new IDB Environmental Policy (January 14, 2005)
For questions regarding the Blue Ribbon Panel please contact Natasha Ward at natashaw@iadb.org.
