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Climate Change and Sustainability: A Newsletter of the Inter-American Development Bank: Vol. 1: November-December 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
The IDB's mandate to promote development in the Latin America and Caribbean region includes a strategic approach along a climate-resilient and low-carbon path. Our adaptation and mitigation work, therefore, continues to expand in depth and breadth. This quarterly newsletter intends to share -in...
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Dominican Republic Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The purpose of this technical note is to identify key environment and safeguard-related risks and opportunities that should be taken into account in the new Country Strategy for the Dominican Republic (DR) as required by the IDB's Environment and Safeguard Policy approved in January 2006....
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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Caribbean Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Caribe
Tyler, Seth D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This document provides an overview of environmental management priorities, achievements, and challenges in the Caribbean sub-region. It also provides some recommendations for sub-regional initiatives that could be pursued through the Dialogue. Throughout this paper, environmental management...
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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Mesoamerican Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Mesoamérica
Pratt, Lawrence; Girot, Pascal O. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This executive profile summarized here identifies the great environmental challenges of the Mesoamerican region, highlights the achievements of the last decade, and points out the future course that will guide the region's environmental management advancements. There are three main issues...
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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Southern Cone Subregion Title: Síntesis del perfil ejecutivo de gestión ambiental: Subregión Cono Sur
Asenjo, Rafael - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
environmental institutions and management practices, aiming at long-term sustainability. The report is based on three fundamental …
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Investing in Biodiversity Conservation: Proceedings of a Workshop
McNeelly, Jeffrey A.; Southgate, Douglas; Smith, David C.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This document presents the proceedings of a one-day Workshop on Investing in Biodiversity Conservation held at the … the presentation of key topics on biodiversity financing by five leaders in the field. The second part of the workshop was … dedicated to a discussion and exchange of ideas on the role of the IDB in investing in biodiversity conservation. Three main …
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Alternatives for Habitat Protection and Rural Income Generation
Southgate, Douglas - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the...
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Lessons Learned from Implementing the Sustainable Development Program in the State of Acre in Brazil
Dengel, Cristina; Horton, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The IDB's strategy in Brazil seeks to promote and further the reform and modernization of the public sector, to support efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty and, finally, to address the problems of...
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Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better
Nascimento, José Rente - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
This paper addresses forest policies concerned with the adequate provision of forest related externalities. Despite the use of the forest vocation land (FVL) in the legislation of many Latin American countries, the discussion in the scientific literature about forest policies based on it is...
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Inter-American Development Bank Advanced Profile: Rural Development Policy
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004
The Bank has developed and implemented several initiatives to reduce poverty and to improve rural competitiveness during the past decade. This document updates and establishes operational principles to guide action in this area so that the stated goals of the Mandate can be effectively achieved....
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