 The Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative -SECCI-
Located at the Infrastructure and Environment Sector (INE), the IDBs Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI) goal is to support the LAC region in its urgent challenge to find economically and environmentally sound energy options. Its core objectives are to expand the development and use of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency technologies and practices, and carbon finance in the region, as well as to promote and finance climate change adaptation strategies that reduce the regions climate vulnerability. | | | | | How to Apply for Support? | | | | | | | | | |
Proposed Climate Investment Funds (CIF) The proposed Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) are an important new source of interim funding through which the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) may provide additional grants and concessional financing to developing countries to address urgent climate change challenges. The CIFs would enable a dynamic partnership between the MDBs and developing countries to undertake policy reforms and investments that achieve a country's development goals through a transition to a climate-resilient economy and a low carbon development path. IDB Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard Launched The Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI) and the Structured and Corporate Finance Department (SCF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have created a Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard based on the sustainability criteria of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. (Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard) SECCI Evaluation Committee Agenda Projects sent to SECCI are reviewed on a first-come first-served manner, every two weeks in the SECCI evaluation committee. Please review the following document to determine when your project will be evaluated (agenda). |
Highlights |  Spreading the word…SECCI events in recent months
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Eighth Annual IDB - Civil Society Meeting - October 17-18, 2008. Montevideo, Uruguay. There will be a session on the "Analysis of the 1st year of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI)". Agenda http://www.iadb.org/exr/csm/2008/ -
Conference on Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness -September 15th and 16th, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The IADB together with the Governments of Germany and Switzerland will hold a conference on Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness, to raise awareness, enrich knowledge, and foster concrete programs and projects in energy efficiency in Latin America. More information and presentations available here. -
“BiofuelsMarkets Americas – Expanding Biofuels Opportunities in Central America and the Caribbean” Miami, USA, May 21-22 2008. Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho (SECCI Team) will participate on the panel “Investing in Biofuels - Attracting Private Sector Development”. The panel will discuss the challenges of raising finance, the roles of banks in fostering good policy development in the region and supporting Government-sponsored studies. -
“Scaling Alternative Energy: The Role of Emerging Markets” Medford,, USA, April 11, 2008. The Dialogue is a joint-initiative of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) and the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME) at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. The IDB, through SECCI Coordinator Juan Pablo Bonilla, will participate in the second dialogue on the topic of Globalization and the Promotion of New Technologies in Emerging Markets.
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“Global to Local - a workshop for Regional Economics of Climate Change Studies” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 6-8, 2008. The SECCI team will participate in this workshop organized by the Stern Team of Office of Climate Change (OCC), UK. The workshop will gather delegations of experts from various countries involved in the assessment of economic impacts of climate change, including Mexico and Colombia, where SECCI is supporting such efforts. The Workshop will discuss the consequences of climate change and its impacts on local growth, security and development agendas as well as informing potential responses to the threat in terms of cost effective options for mitigation and raising global technological and financial investment. -
“The Nova Scotia Climate Change Event” Halifax, Canada, March 28- 2008. SECCI participated in the Public-Private climate change and renewable energy workgroup, sponsored by the state of Nova Scotia. -
“World Biofuels Markets” Brussels, Belgium, March 12, 2008. Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho (SECCI Team) participated in the panel on Project Finance and Project Debt Financing. -
“Washington International Renewable Energy Conference – WIREC 2008” Washington DC, USA, March 4-6, 2008. Juan Pablo Bonilla (SECCI Team) participated as a panelist in the Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development Ministerial Level Session on Sustainability, Technology and Development. Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho (SECCI Team) also participated in the panel on Distributed and off-grid generation in Emerging Markets.
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