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IDB Invest helps companies in Latin America and the Caribbean turn climate and environmental challenges into opportunities for growth, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.

 

Challenges and Opportunities

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We work with clients to design practical solutions that strengthen operations, improve resource efficiency, manage exposure to weather and nature-related risks, and expand access to markets and capital.

Through advisory services, financing, knowledge, and resource mobilization, we help companies adopt new technologies and best practices, structure sound investments, and build projects that are scalable, bankable, and attractive to investors.

Our approach is driven by client needs and market opportunities.

We support private sector-led solutions that enhance productivity, protect assets, strengthen supply chains, and deliver measurable economic, environmental, and social outcomes across the region.

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Resource Mobilization

Resource Mobilization

As a multilateral development bank, we can structure loans and bonds to expand the pool of funds available for investment in the private sector.

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Equity

Equity

In some cases, IDB Invest may become a part owner of a company and share in the risks and potential rewards of a business venture.

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Blended Finance

By putting concessional donor funds to work in targeted ways, we can often tap into new sources of capital for high-impact projects.

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Publications

Meet Our Expert:

Hilen Meirovich is the Managing Director of Climate and Environment at IDB Invest. Hilen has over 20 years of experience in climate finance, sustainable infrastructure, and environmental finance, with roles at IDB, IDB Invest, and active speaker at global climate forums.

Under her leadership, IDB Invest expanded its climate advisory services, quadrupling climate-related transactions, and building a $10.3 billion climate finance portfolio. Her leadership included spearheading innovative financing mechanisms, resource mobilization, and aligning organizational practices with the Paris Agreement. An example of those innovations as the development of Latin America’s first blue bond, and positioned IDB Invest as a climate leader across MDBs and other international actors.

Hilen holds a PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University, an MA in Public Policy from Georgetown University, and an MA in Political Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.