Ce volume est le premier de deux qui constituent le rapport annuel de la Banque interaméricaine de développement. La Discussion et Analyse de la Direction, les états financiers vérifiés (uniquement en anglais et en espagnol) et les annexes, dans leur totalité, sont publiés dans un volume...

IDB is developing a Climate Change Strategy with a focus on sectors that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, for which the Bank will promulgate good practices that encourage the use of appropriate greenhouse gas emissions reduction technologies. One selected subsector in the IDB climate...

This is the first of two volumes that constitute the Annual Report of the Inter-American Development Bank 2009. The two-volume report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 2009 (loans, guarantees and grants) and, in a separate volume, Management's Discussion and Analysis: Ordinary...

This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 1999. Overall in 1999, the Bank's environmental and natural resource activities were focused in three priority areas of action: 1) identifying and implementing loans specially designed to solve...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) hired Castalia to develop a preliminary assessment of sustainable energy for Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). In the context of this assignment, 'sustainable energy' refers to electric energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy generation (RE), and efficient use...

Purpose – The discussion of climate change and energy problems is generally based on the assumption that technical solutions are possible and that the task is essentially to determine the most effective ways. This view relies heavily on the expectation that renewable energy sources can be...

Sufficiently accurate and low-cost estimation of tidal velocities is of importance when evaluating a potential site for a tidal energy farm. Here we suggest and evaluate a model to calculate the tidal velocity in fjord entrances. The model is compared with tidal velocities from Acoustic Doppler...

Wind power is becoming an increasingly attractive method of electric power generation due to concerns with global climate change, increasing uncertainty of future oil supplies, and energy security. While most large-scale wind turbines are part of wind farms, which help states meet state...

This paper reports on early work and concept development for Optimal Mine Site Energy Supply, where the specific energy supply requirements and constraints for mineral production operations are considered against methodologies that have been applied for other sectors and in other energy policy...