The Emerging & Sustainable Cities Initiative addresses urban sustainability in Latin America

By Shanna Edberg
April 20, 2016

The Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative works to address urban challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most of the population of the region lives in low-lying coastal areas, so a major focus of the Initiative is finding solutions for cities to both reduce their carbon emissions and boost their disaster resilience. The Initiative also tackles cities’ environmental footprint, social equity, access to transportation and public services, public safety, economic competitiveness, and more.

This post is part of a series on organizations and leaders who engage in multisolving, or climate-smart policies that simultaneously work to mitigate climate change while providing co-benefits such as the ones described above.