Sostenibilidad

Consultations are institutional mechanisms embedded in many Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) safeguards which consider the views of the stakeholders involved in its operations. They also represent an opportunity to build consensus on goals, and promote the engagement of beneficiaries to help them achieve environmental and social sustainability. The advantages of carrying out public consultations are usually clear. Nevertheless, their implementation in complex socioeconomic and cultural contexts can pose major challenges.

The world population is expected to increase to almost 10 billion people in 2050, and securing the supply of wood and timber from sustainable sources without competing for agricultural land and food production has already become a challenge in many parts of the world. In recent decades’ export-oriented industrial agriculture has become the main driver of South American land use patterns, increasing the pressure for more efficient and intensive production systems.

El 12 de diciembre del 2015 se firmó en París el primer acuerdo global y vinculante para mitigar las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) y adaptarse al cambio climático. La base del Acuerdo de París son las Contribuciones Previstas y Determinadas a Nivel Nacional (ahora NDCs, por sus siglas en inglés), las cuales establecen los esfuerzos de cada uno de los países para reducir sus emisiones de gases GEI y lograr en conjunto el no sobrepasar los 2°C de forma global.

El mundo laboral del año 2030 deberá ser más igualitario. Así lo sugiere el tema elegido para celebrar el Día Internacional de la Mujer “Las mujeres en un mundo laboral en transformación: hacia un planeta 50-50 en 2030”. Un mercado laboral que se encuentra en plena transformación con grandes implicaciones para las mujeres. La globalización, la revolución tecnológica, el aumento de la informalidad y la inestabilidad, así como el impacto del cambio climático afectan de distintas maneras el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres.

“They thought that the bullet would silence us. But they failed… weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” – Malala Yousafzai, speaking at the UN on her 16th birthday

In our previous blog of this 3-part blog series, we showed how earlier safeguards involvement in project cycles contributes to improved sustainability performance. In this blog, we illustrate how the use of safeguards helps countries manage environmental and social impacts, and help sponsors implement innovative best practices.

On the day we celebrated the World Day of Social Justice, it seemed appropriate to talk about education, as education is one of the basic pillars to achieve social justice.