The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) welcomes the opportunity that the World Summit on Sustainable Development offers the development community to reflect on regional trends and the major challenges facing our member countries in environmental sustainability. The IDB prepared this document...

This document is the Final Report prepared by the National Center for the Environment (CENMA) of the University of Chile for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to comply with number 5. of the Letter of Agreement signed by both institutions to specified the conditions under which the...

This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...

This report summarizes the discussions and presents working group reports and papers presented at the Seminar/Workshop on Integrated Water resources Management: Institutional and Policy Reform held on June 24th-27th, 1997 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Based on progress to date, the...

This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 2003. In 2003, the most significant development on the environment within the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was the adoption of the new Environment Strategy in June. It is based on the...

Calling for a renewed, more integrated approach, this Strategy (GN-1906-2) is intended to bring the Bank's interventions in sectors such as fisheries, tourism, maritime transport and pollution control in line with the objectives of the Eighth Capital Replenishment. Integrated coastal management...

This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 1996. The Bank has translated its sustainable development mandate into five priority areas of activity: its government lending operations, private sector debt and equity funding, technical cooperations...

The objective of this Health Strategy (GN-2321) is to help Latin American and the Caribbean countries improve the health of their populations, attaining national health objectives and tailoring Millennium Development Goals to conditions in each country. The priorities areas of Bank Actions...

The Bank's Environment Strategy (GN-2208-4) is a guiding instrument whose fundamental objective is to attain greater effectiveness in the support that the Bank offers each of the borrower countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve their sustainable development goals. The strategy...

The chief objective of this Strategy (GN-1969-4) is to guide efforts to support the restructuring and reform of the energy sector in the borrowing countries so that these sectors can develop in a way that is economically, financially, environmentally, socially and politically sustainable. The...