The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) financed a record $4.5 billion in climate change-related activities, according to the IDB's 2021 Sustainability Report. These resources, which repres...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its private sector arm, IDB Invest, reported Wednesday that they achieved a record of nearly $23.4 billion in new financing approvals, commitments...

The municipality of Maricá, east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, approved a new law at the end of 2021 that establishes a new tax regime for environmental protection initiatives, such as so-called ...

The Latin American Association of Development Finance Institutions (ALIDE), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carib...

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, outlined four key achievements made at this month’s UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, which represent “significant progre...

The UN Climate Change Secretariat has published a new document stating 2050 Vision and Summary in the context of the Climate Action Pathway – Finance theme. The Vision statement defines tha...

The recent G20 summit held in Naples, Italy, was seen as a decisive step ahead of the COP 26, to be held in Glasgow in November 2021. The failure to agree common language ahead of that gather...

This study presents some methodologies for estimating the social price of carbon, describes how this can be included in the evaluation processes of public investment projects, taking the case ...