Natural Capital Lab: Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Financial Innovation (IADB-RG-T3728)

Regions
  • Latin America and Caribbean
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Borrower
Regional
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
  • Finance
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 0.27 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ IADB website

Updated in EWS Jul 29, 2020

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Project Description
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This TC has the general objective to support the knowledge creation, dissemination and implementation of pilot activities that enable biodiversity mainstreaming across the Bank's sectors, and within IDB operations through its member countries at national and subnational levels. These biodiversity-led activities allow the incubation, acceleration and scale of new finance, technology and policy solutions. To achieve this goal, this TC will: (i) develop, design and test methodologies for new financial models that leverage the value of biodiversity and natural capital, along with tools to streamline the application of nature-based solutions; (ii) develop research and knowledge products that identify the opportunities for biodiversity mainstreaming and design the related activities to be integrated into Bank operations or policy planning, and ensure that these are in alignment with the IDB institutional strategy; (iii) upscale capacity building, training and dissemination of technical support across governments to incentivize and implement biodiversity mainstreaming; (iv) evaluate, publish and disseminate results and knowledge obtained from the NCL's interventions through its communication channels and regional policy dialogues across high-level strategic clients and partners.

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF IADB

The Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who have been or are likely to be adversely affected by an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC)-funded project. If you submit a complaint to MICI, they may assist you in addressing the problems you raised through a dispute-resolution process with those implementing the project and/or through an investigation to assess whether the IDB or IIC is following its own policies for preventing or mitigating harm to people or the environment. You can submit a complaint by sending an email to MICI@iadb.org. You can learn more about the MICI and how to file a complaint at http://www.iadb.org/en/mici/mici,1752.html (in English) or http://www.iadb.org/es/mici/mici,1752.html (Spanish).

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