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This report by Friends of the Earth International criticizes the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for financing large-scale, export-oriented biofuel projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The document argues that these projects exacerbate social inequality, threaten biodiversity, and may increase greenhouse gas emissions due to land-use changes, while failing to alleviate rural poverty.

This briefing outlines the Terms of Reference (TOR) for developing a strategic plan and priorities for the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) for the following decade, focusing on governance, science-policy interfaces, and regional cooperation.

This briefing outlines the Terms of Reference (TORs) for developing a strategic plan and priorities for the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) for the following decade. The document identifies key areas for institutional improvement, including governance, funding, communication, and the IAI's relationship with member countries and global organizations.

This report assesses progress toward the human development Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) between 2000 and 2005, focusing on the challenges of scaling up skilled providers, ensuring sustained financing, and improving governance to translate resources into effective service delivery in health, education, water, and sanitation.

The IAI's July 2001 annex outlines new capacity-building initiatives, including the IAI Science Grant Phase II (funded by US$ 300,000 from the NSF) and co-funded training activities utilizing US$ 60,000 from the PESCA program. These initiatives target junior researchers and under-represented countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to foster new Cooperative Research Networks and interdisciplinary training.

This report summarizes the first part of a two-part document detailing a July 2012 UNFCCC regional expert meeting on Loss and Damage held in Mexico City. It highlights the disparity in policy attention between extreme weather events and slow-onset climate processes in Latin America and the Caribbean, and calls for integrated risk-management approaches to address these gaps.

This sponsorship brochure outlines the CONNECT 2026 series of global events organized by the Climate Bonds Initiative. The events aim to drive the sustainable finance agenda by bringing together decision-makers from governments, investors, and financial institutions to address the climate crisis and share best practices.

The Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) is a methodology designed to define, identify, and scale up investments for climate resilience and adaptation. It provides a classification system of activities and measures, supported by science-based screening criteria, to help financial institutions, governments, and corporates identify credible resilience investments and mitigate greenwashing.

This guide by the Global Climate and Health Alliance details the intersection of the climate crisis and public health, emphasizing the vulnerabilities of children and marginalized groups. It advocates for the integration of health priorities into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and outlines how mitigation and adaptation strategies in energy, transport, agriculture, and urban planning can yield significant health and economic benefits.

The 'Common Position of Latin America and the Caribbean on Climate Change and Health' is a report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance and various regional signatories. It outlines the specific vulnerabilities of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region to the climate crisis, emphasizing the intersection of environmental degradation, extreme poverty, and health inequities. The document proposes a framework of six key pillars—protecting health, mitigation with health benefits, climate justice, adaptation, leadership/governance, and financing—to guide regional governments and the international community toward a health-centered climate response, particularly in preparation for COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

The Common Position of Latin America and the Caribbean on Climate Change and Health highlights the region's severe vulnerability to climate-driven health crises, exacerbated by structural inequalities. It identifies critical gaps in health sector adaptation, education, and financing—noting that only 11.6% of Green Climate Fund projects in the region include explicit health benefits. The document advocates for integrating health into national climate policies, strengthening primary care, and ensuring climate justice for Indigenous and marginalized communities through frameworks like the Belém Health Action Plan and the Escazú Agreement.

This statement, produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance and a wide array of regional signatories, outlines a common position for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regarding the intersection of climate change and public health. It advocates for the integration of health into national climate policies, a just energy transition, and the protection of vulnerable populations, particularly indigenous peoples and those in urban peripheries, ahead of COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

An official statement from Mexico's Directorate-General for Climate Action Policies confirming the country's support for the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Common Position on Climate Change and Health for COP30, detailing how health is integrated into Mexico's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0.

This common position document, authored by a broad coalition of health and environmental organizations, outlines the critical intersection of climate change and public health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It details the region's high vulnerability to extreme weather, the disproportionate impact on marginalized and indigenous populations, and the urgent need to integrate health into national climate policies (NDCs) and adaptation plans. The document advocates for a 'just transition' that eliminates fossil fuel dependency, transforms unsustainable food systems, and strengthens primary healthcare to build climate resilience ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

This executive summary outlines the 'Common Position of Latin America and the Caribbean on Climate Change and Health,' detailing how climate change exacerbates health crises and structural inequalities in the region. It proposes six strategic axes—protection of health, mitigation with health benefits, climate justice, adaptation, health sector leadership, and financing—to integrate public health into climate policy and ensure a just transition.

This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative and the Global Center on Adaptation analyzes the widening gap between adaptation finance needs and actual flows, with a specific focus on Africa. It highlights that current funding is insufficient, heavily reliant on debt, and concentrated in a few countries, while calling for standardized tracking and more ambitious public and private commitments to avoid massive economic losses.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative details the 2018 green finance commitments of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) member institutions, noting a decrease in total commitments compared to 2017 but a significant increase in adaptation finance.

This report provides a compilation and summary of eight national assessments conducted by Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) member organisations. It examines the increasing power of transnational corporations within the energy and agriculture sectors and the neoliberal policy frameworks that enable this concentration of power.

This document is a summary of seven national diagnostics conducted by member organizations of Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) regarding the increasing power of transnational corporations in the energy and agricultural sectors.

This guide, published by Friends of the Earth International, provides a framework for preventing and responding to sexual violence and harassment within its federation. It defines key feminist and anti-capitalist terms, outlines specific behaviors that constitute harassment, and proposes practical organizational steps to dismantle patriarchal power structures and ensure gender justice.