The global climate and ecological crises are more alarming than ever. The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs due to rampant burning and deforestation. As people around the globe suffer through worsening climate catastrophes, financial institutions continue to fund the corporations perpetuating ecological destruction and human...
Peru is emerging as one of the key laboratories for a big experiment to save the world's remaining tropical forests known as REDD.
A publication that exposes the failures of the Inter-American Bank.
Calgary, Canada – Civil society representatives from Latin America recently attended the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Annual Meeting along with Amazon Watch to monitor progress of a new reform agenda adopted by the Bank last year and on which the Bank’s recapitalization is conditioned.
Calgary, Canada – Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil presentes en la Reunión Anual del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) ven con gran preocupación el tratamiento de la participación de la sociedad civil en las actividades del banco.
Calgary, Canada – Una delegación latinoamericana de la sociedad civil llego a Calgary esta semana para la reunión anual del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo.
Bajo la presión de la sociedad global de enfrentar el cambio climático, el BID ha declarado que también quiere convertirse en un "banco verde". Sin embargo, la cartera de energía del 2009 muestra un enorme aumento de préstamos a proyectos de energía no renovable con limitados beneficios para los pobres y con enormes impactos para las comunidades...
IDB Watch | A publication that exposes the failures of the Inter-American Bank.
(Washington, DC) – As the Inter-American Development Bank's governors arrive for special meetings in Washington DC next week, the proposal to increase the Bank's callable capital by 200 percent appears to be in jeopardy, several non-governmental organizations said today."There appears to be no consensus between the B
