The Road to Rio + 20: Green and Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
According to a new report by the World Bank, since the last Rio Conference on Sustainable Development twenty years ago, Latin America has served as the world’s laboratory for green and inclusive growth. The region has the lowest carbon energy matrix of the developing world, the first regional catastrophic risk insurance facility, experiences in community-driven upgrading of slums, and the world’s most extensive use of bus rapid transit. The study argues that over the last two decades, the region has become a “solutions provider” through innovations that are clean, efficient, resilient and socially inclusive. Integrating these green-growth innovations into sustainable policies and widespread practices is a critical future challenge for the region.
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Brazil Institute
The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—aims to deepen understanding of Brazil’s complex landscape and strengthen relations between Brazilian and US institutions across all sectors. Read more
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more