5 December 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved two loans for Trinidad and Tobago totaling US$130 million, including US$80 million for climate change measures and US$50 million to strengthen the financial sector.
5 December 2011: Five multilateral development banks have agreed on a new partnership to support climate action in cities, including better coordination, and to deepen support to cities in adapting to and mitigating climate change, such as the development of common tools and metrics for cities.
25 November 2011: Africa's development will remain a high priority for the Group of 20 (G20) as Mexico assumes the Presidency from France, according to comments by France's Vice Sherpa to the G20 Development Working Group. He said the focus will be on infrastructure development, to increase economic growth and contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to ensure continued sustainable development.
23 November 2011: The World Bank has launched a new Climate Change Knowledge Portal as part of its Open Data Initiative, which links users to over 250 climate indicators and includes visualization tools depicting temperature and rainfall scenarios to the year 2100.
22 November 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$60 million loan to aid Trinidad and Tobago for implementation of a sustainable and renewable energy program.
21 November 2011: Delegates from the four Andean Community (CAN) countries approved a work plan for a key element of the Community's biodiversity program, BioCAN. Approved at the second session of the technical committee for the Amazon Regional Information Platform (PIRAA), the work plan for the Platform and its national nodes calls for actions and mechanisms to improve the exchange of information on biodiversity and the environment in the Amazonian regions of the four countries.
21 November 2011: The Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) held a three-day workshop for National Coordinators of small island developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean to launch the implementation of its SIDS Community-Based Adaptation project.
17 November 2011: The World Bank has approved a US$49 million loan to Uruguay to support the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change Project, a system of more environmentally-sustainable farming practices to adapt agricultural production to the effects of climate change.
16 November 2011: The Government of Grenada, financed by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the World Bank, with technical support from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), organized an information sharing workshop to discuss the problems and solutions of sharing geospatial data to improve disaster risk management in the Caribbean.
17 November 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$150 million loan to expand wind energy generation in Latin America. The loan will support the construction of four wind farms, three in Brazil and one in Uruguay, expected to add 546 megawatts of wind energy capacity to the region by 2014.
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