1 July 2010
This month's edition of the BICECA Monthly Bulletin features updates on the World Bank's Energy Strategy Review as well as the IFC's Policy and Standards Review in Latin America.
This month's edition of the BICECA Monthly Bulletin features updates on the World Bank Group's consultations on its new Energy Strategy as well as the International Finance Corporation’s Policy and Standards Review in Latin America. Included are civil society's concerns surrounding both strategies as well as notes and feedback from public consultations in the region.
You'll also find the executive summary of BIC’s Model Energy Strategy, which BIC hopes will guide the Bank as it establishes its energy financing priorities for the next 10 years.
Finally, we've included a Best Practice Model for Renewable Energy Financing in Mexico, written by Dr. Jorge Islas Samperio and Ana María Gómez Solares of the Center for Energy Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. This model serves as an example of how investments in providing energy for the poor can be made without sacrificing environmental sustainability.
The complete newsletter with pictures and footnotes in PDF format (Spanish):
BICECA Monthly Bulletin- Building Informed Civic Engagement for the Conservation in the Andes-Amazon - A project of the Bank Information Center (BIC)
Through this newsletter, the project BICECA Bank Information Center, seeks to bring relevant news and the latest information about particular aspects of projects and policies related to the project of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA). This publication is intended for diverse civil society organizations, indigenous groups, students, academics and other persons or entities that follow the policies and projects of international financial institutions in relation to IIRSA.
This newsletter is published by civil society to civil society and its contributors are from various sources and nations. The authors are mostly researchers studying and working on issues of integration IIRSA Initiative.
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