Trends in the Environmental Sector

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Trends in the Environmental Sector

• Inter-American Development Bank
• Business Seminar, February 2003
• Helena Landázuri, RE1/EN1

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Brief Historical Perspective

• 1990
• Establishment of the Banks first Environmental
  Protection Division.
• Staff 15
• 1994
• Separation into 4 Environmental Divisions
• Staff 84, including 6 regional advisors
• 2003
• Staff in 4 Environmental Divisions 63
• Environmental specialists in other sectoral
  Divisions 6

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Traditional areas of environmental investment

• Policy and institutional development
• Natural resource management
• Conservation
• Note Water Sanitation and Agriculture are
  included under separate headings

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Growth in number of operations (Loans)
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Environmental Investment per Region(Amount in
USx1000)
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Projects in the pipeline
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Emerging fields

• Ecotourism
• Pollution remediation
• Cleaner technologies
• Disaster prevention and management
• Non-financial support (technical assistance in
  fields such as environmental litigation,
  consensus building, community consultation)

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Evolution in the Banks mandate

• 1994 8th replenishment of capital.
• Poverty reduction
• Social equity
• Modernization of productive sectors
• Integration
• Consolidation of civil society

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Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

• MDGs that refer to the environment
• Reduce to a half the number of people with no
  access to potable water, by 2015 and
• Attain significant improvements in the quality of
  life for at least 100 million people currently
  living in slumps, by 2020
• Goals for international development
• Environmental development strategies for all
  countries, by 2005

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Policy instruments

• New Environmental Strategy
• Poverty Reduction
• Gender Action Plan
• Indigenous peoples inclusion and equity

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Thank you very much

• helenal_at_iadb.org