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The first 700 houses of an initial 27,600 energy-efficient homes have already been completed and 5,000 houses are currently under construction for low to middle-income families in Mexico as part of an IDB project financed by resources from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF). In addition, more than 9.000 additional units have been submitted for evaluation. The new houses will reduce GHG emissions, increase the comfort of residents, and lower their electricity bills.

An estimated 4,900 low-income people in southern Mexico will receive additional income from forestry activities while reducing GHG emissions in a project financed by the Forest Investment Program and carried out by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the IDB Group. The project’s beneficiaries live in ejidos(comunally held lands) and other rural communities in the states of Oaxaca, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, and Campeche, which are among the areas in Mexico experiencing the most extensive loss of forests.

On June 8, we celebrate World Oceans Day. Here are seven economic and environmental reasons you too should celebrate and think about conserving the oceans and coral reefs in our region:More than three-quarters of the surface of the earth are covered by oceans.

Despite the estimated 1.5 billion tons of carbon released every year by tropical deforestation. Or that the current CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has reached the highest level in at least 650,000 years.  It is world environment day and I’m smiling.Despite the fact that world deforestation contributes directly to about 20% of our current greenhouse gas emissions and CO2 has been proven to have a direct effect in climate change.

The provision of energy efficient cook stoves and renewable energy development will improve living standards in low-income rural communities in Honduras in a program financed by the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program. The program will primarily benefit indigenous and Afro-Honduran communities not connected to the national power grid. Activities will help to change the focus of Honduras’ current rural electrification paradigm from primarily expanding the grid (sometimes uneconomical) to including alternatives for isolated communities.

The investment plan for Haiti’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) presents a strategy for climate change adaption and identifies four initiatives that will be administered collaboratively by the IDB and the World Bank. The country’s SPCR was endorsed by the PPRC Sub-Committee during its last meeting in Washington, DC, in May 2013.