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This analytical document examines the literature of vulnerability indicators and explores their significance for effective adaptation to climate change using a selected sample of development projects from the Inter-American Development Bank.

This analytical document examines the market constraints on the development of the agricultural insurance market in Colombia. The document also provides recommendations to fulfill its potential as a risk management tool in the country.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into the Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the water and sanitation sector.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank’s investments for the urban infrastructure sector. 

This guidance document shows an initial portfolio of adaptation case studies to establish specific policies of adaptation to climate change with respect to impacts on water resources. The case studies are based on on-going Inter-American Development Bank activities in the Latin American region, and they are aiming at providing local information and analyses assisting the local water resources managers.

This analytical document provides an overview of the increasing vulnerability of Word Heritage sites to climate change impacts as well as the potential implications on global tourism. The report also examines the relationship between World Heritage and tourism, and how climate change is likely to exacerbate problems caused by unplanned tourism development and uncontrolled or poorly managed visitor access, as well as other threats and stresses.

This guidance document seeks to encourage children and youth to use their creativity and energy to come up with feasible, sustainable, long-term strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Each set of lesson plans includes an introductory text about the topic that can serve as background material for the teacher or as a text for older students. 

This activity report highlights the program’s progress and results during Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15). This year’s report showcases three focus areas in water: building resilience; helping service providers become more efficient and sustainable; and using integrated approaches to confront complexity. 

This guidance document examines potential policy instruments for agricultural climate change adaptation based on empirical analysis of a theoretical model for Brazil.

This guidance document pretends to motivate the school community to rise up and take initiatives against climate change.

This technical document identifies climate change risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investments and presents considerations for monitoring and evaluation strategies to track the effectiveness of such actions. 

This guidance document examines the sea level rise in Trinidad and Tobago and defines the vulnerability of the water and sanitation sector with respect to sea level rise. It contributes to strengthen the capacity of the water and sanitation sector to adaptively respond to sea level rise.

This guidance document presents the process of increasing climate change adaptation capacity in communities in Central America. The document also identifies the corresponding infrastructure and policy-based adaptation measures that can be implemented in response to increased precipitation intensity,

This analytical document shows a small Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact of carbon taxes on GDP and emissions under alternative closure rules and hypotheses. The model is simulated for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Jamaica and Peru and evaluates the costs of lowering emissions under different scenarios.

This guidance document specifically examines the role of national level dietary guidelines in providing a steer on what dietary patterns that are both healthy and sustainable look like.

This analytical report discusses climate impacts on specific ecosystem services, including on provisioning services, regulating services, supporting services and cultural services. It outlines a range of policy solutions to address climate impacts that are related to: assessing loss and damage to ecosystem services; avoiding and reducing loss and damage; risk reduction; and identifies areas for future research.

This analytical document shows that there are new forms of collaboration and cooperation, planning, governance, finance and learning that can sustain positive change. The report demonstrates that the current urbanization model is unsustainable and suggests that the pattern of urbanization needs to be changed.

This guidance document explores many pathways towards an inclusive green economy. The document suggests that green economy discourse needs to be brought much closer to the people, with an emphasis on valuing the invisible, involving communities and stimulating environmental employment. The report also shows that “green” policies will struggle to make a long-term impact unless they deliver what communities need.

This technical document clarifies the concept of additionality and its significance for crediting mechanisms; describes the different approaches that have been used to demonstrate or test additionality; and explores the implications of the evolving carbon markets on the application and importance of additionality.

This guidance document presents the framework which is most effective when a wide range of risks must be considered, as is typically the case with high-value hydropower investments. The report suggests that in order to gain maximum benefit from the framework, it should be conducted at both project and basin scale, first to answer questions immediately relevant to investors and then to provide perspective on alternative investment portfolios that may yield greater returns.