IDB and IDB Invest Provided $26bn in Climate Financing over Five Years

(IDB, 14.Nov.2022) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest, the IDB Group‘s private-sector arm, provided more than $26bn in climate financing for Latin America and the Caribbean between 2016 and 2021. This figure represents approximately 60% of all climate financing in the region from multilateral development banks during this period. Of the total, $8.3bn went to […]

Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference: Day 2 Highlights

(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Jan.2022) — Selected highlights from the virtual Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference hosted by the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago from 24-26 January 2022 including presentations from Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Planning and Development Camille Robinson-Regis, KBR Energy Global Energy Transition Advisor Kareemah Mohammed, and Kenesjay […]

Ecuador Dedicates $300mn To Coastal Electrification Plan

(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2021) — Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MENNR) as well as the country’s Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, together with the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL) signed an inter-institutional agreement to allow for investment of approximately $300mn on works to improve the […]

Bankers ‘Bombard’ Guyana With Financing Plans

(Reuters, 21.Jan.2020) — As the former British colony begins its first significant oil production this year, it is wary of avoiding the mistakes made in oil-dependent economies such as Angola, Nigeria and its economically collapsing neighbor Venezuela. Winston Jordan, an economist and career public servant, also cited Guyana’s own history […]

Guaido IDB Envoy Hausmann Resigns Post

(Argus, 26.Sep.2019) — Venezuela’s parallel administration headed by opposition leader Juan Guaido has lost its most prominent figure, former planning minister and Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann. Hausmann, who recently hinted at repudiating some of Venezuela’s debt, had been serving as Guaido’s representative at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a Washington-based […]