Imagine that you and your family have lived in a lush community and filled with life. In the days of your grandparents, only a few families lived there, but today it is home to about 5,000 people. Imagine also that your house lies in fertile land, between two rivers that frequently overflow from December to March. Imagine then that your house is flooded for days, and the situation is so critical that the street where you live is only passable by boats.
To help increase the capacities of counterparts and executing agencies in matters of environmental and social risk management, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) offers its course on Principles for Review of Environmental Impact Studies - PREIA.
The achievement of the Paris Agreement is compromised. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) presented today cannot limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Thus, it is extremely urgent to accelerate the transformation of the global economy to avoid more extreme climate impacts. Ambition is the keyword of the COP 25 in Chile: countries, under the ambition mechanism, must update or renew their NDCs every five years to make their actions compatible with the objectives of the Agreement, and global efforts must focus on boosting this process.
Spanning over three decades, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been at the forefront of policy development and public-sector investments fostering blue economic development and risk-resilient coastal zones in the Wider Caribbean Region. Using the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) framework, and more recently incorporating ecosystem-based considerations, the Bank has been able to refine its technical approach over time.
Access to adequate housing is a universal human right. That is why the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been working in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) for many years to eliminate the housing gap through an extensive variety of options that range from direct housing construction, to support for housing social subsidies through credit lines to the development banks of the countries.
Every April 22nd since 1970, the world celebrates Earth Day, which is considered to mark the birth of the modern environmental movement.
What exactly compelled representatives from 19 different government institutions to fill the corridors of The Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at the end of a long work week? A current national crisis? A new impending threat? Not quite, but the answer is not as far removed as you may think.
In a not too distant future, in a galaxy very similar to ours, the statistics will be all remote. Satellites will take photos and scan the entire surface of a given country, or a region. Algorithms tuned for many years with intense validation work in the field, will prepare maps of agricultural areas, livestock, forest, fallow land and other types of uses.
President Carlos Alvarado together with the first lady, Claudia Dobles, recently presented the Decarbonization Plan of Costa Rica. The plan is based on the Paris Agreement that seeks to limit the increase in global temperature well below 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels.