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Are Financial Institutions Ready to Face Climate Risks? This Is What We Found Out
An IDB Invest survey shows they require guidance and a solid legal framework to navigate a complex landscape. Experts recommend focusing on three pillars: governance and culture, implementation and engagement, and transition planning.
Artificial Intelligence for Timely Diagnosis of Tropical Diseases
Climate change accelerates the transmission of infections. Technology can help win this race against time, save costs, and save lives, especially in Amazonia and other vulnerable areas.
Finding a Common Language for Financing the Circular Economy in Peru
Achieving a just transition to the circular economy involves a shift into a new model that leaves no one behind. Although the road ahead is teeming with obstacles, the experience in Peru has jump-started a knowledge-creation process, easing the transition and establishing the first steps.
Coming Soon: Zero-Carbon Affordable Housing
Homes with high energy efficiency have traditionally been perceived as luxuries that only some in developed countries can afford. That’s no longer the case, as affordable zero-carbon housing that contributes to the fight against climate change will soon be available in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Regulators & Companies Reshaping Sustainability: Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?
Some companies are still expecting that regulators come up with sustainability guidelines, but others are moving fast, making a valuable contribution to a cleaner future, and reaping the benefits: new business opportunities, more stakeholder engagement and contributions to their country commitments.
Latin America at a Crossroads
Latin America and the Caribbean now faces a crossroads where we must work to optimize the many opportunities to build a different and better world.
Advancing Gender Equality with Incentives that Work
The challenges faced by the financial sector to convert more women into clients can be addressed by combining well-designed incentives and advisory services.
Five Steps to Develop an Effective Gender, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
Many companies in the region come up with excellent gender, diversity and inclusion initiatives but don't have an adequate strategy, or they have the strategy but still lack the initiatives to implement it. Here are five steps that companies can take to make it all fit together.
IDB World: Electronic Commerce, Ecological Forests, Regional Remittances
We present three selected blog posts from the IDB Group, on international e-commerce, the importance of forests as providers of ecosystem services, and cross-border capital transfers during the pandemic.