(Photo: OAS) October 29, 2013 Photos Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development The Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) held a debate today, as part of its regular meeting, on urban planning and the construction of cities and communities in greater harmony with the environment. […]

Washington, D.C., October 29, 2013 – Maria-Paz Gutierrez, a Senior Fellow in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), will visit Brazil October 29th – November 2nd to participate in meetings and events in Brasilia and Sao Paulo about how to design sustainable and efficient buildings. Senior ECPA Fellow Gutierrez is an Assistant […]

The new ECPA initiative “Renewable Energy and Climate Science: Metrology and Technology Challenges in the Americas” was launched in Querétaro, México on October 8 and 9, 2013. The project will be implemented in a partnership between the OAS and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and began through this Planning Workshop. The ECPA […]

The US State Department and Helvetas Guatemala present this program, which invites project proposals that promote public participation in environmental protection in Central America and the Dominican Republic through the implementation of educational activities and training in environmental regulations and procedures to a large section of civil society. Additionally, to foster the interaction between local […]

The report focuses on the status of renewable energy technologies in Central America and analyzes the conditions for their advancement in the future. It identifies important knowledge and information gaps and evaluates key finance and policy barriers, making suggestions for how to overcome both. As such, this study is a “roadmap of a roadmap”—it scopes […]

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) support the project “Carbon and Water Footprints in 3 Andean Cities: La Paz, Quito, and Lima,” with the end goal of promoting mitigation actions and climate change adaptation at a municipal level. The project is implemented by the Environmental Consulting […]