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The Road to Rio + 20: Green and Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

On Thursday, May 31st, the Latin American Program, Brazil Institute, and the World Bank Latin America and the Caribbean Region released a new report on green growth and energy.

Date & Time

Thursday
May. 31, 2012
12:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Location

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

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—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and U.S. institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities.  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

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