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Regional Activities

 

Latin America

 

UNEP FI Latin American Task Force (LATF)

News

  • Environmental and Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) E-learning Programme
    Dates for 2008 Courses in Spanish
  • Environmental and Social Risk Analysis Training Workshops 2008
    The LATF plans to hold additional training workshops on environmental and social risk analysis in Paraguay, Uruguay and the Caribbean. Further locations are under consideration, as well as the development of an "advanced" training workshop for delivery in countries already visited by the LATF in previous years.
  • Coming Soon: Online Training Programme on Corporate Ecoefficiency for FIs
    To be piloted and launched in 2008, this new training programme will seek to train financial institutions on how to operate more eco-efficiently and gain a further competitive edge.


About LATF

Through its Latin American Task Force, UNEP FI is working with financial institutions throughout Latin America to support and expand sustainable financial practice in the region. The LATF’s activities include:

  • Awareness-raising and dissemination
  • Capacity-building through workshops and online training courses
    Find out about our Risk Training Workshops and Online Courses
  • Exchange of views, ideas and best practice between members and key stakeholders
  • Research & tool development

Members

ABN AMRO Banco Real (Brazil) Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación con la Agricultura (FIRA) (Mexico)
ABN AMRO Bank (Mexico) Fundación Social (Colombia)
Banco Itaú (Brazil) Grupo BBVA (Spain)
BANOBRAS (Mexico) HSBC Salvadoreño S.A. (El Salvador)
BBVA Banco Continental (Peru) HSBC (Argentina)
BNDES (Brazil) HSBC (Mexico)
Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) (Venezuela) Rabobank International (Brazil)

Associate Members

Fundaçao Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel (FBDS) (Brazil) Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA) (Ecuador)
Fundação Getulio Vargas(FGV) - CES (Brazil) Institutuo Nacional de Ecología (INE) (Mexico)
CLACDS - INCAE Business School & Proyecto Ecobanking (Costa Rica) SRInvest Argentina (Argentina)

Contact

Careen Abb
LATF Coordinator
Email: la@unepfi.org

 


LATF Brochure
  PDF UNEP FI Latin American Task Force Brochure (Spanish)
(115 KB | 2 pages)
 
    
  An introduction to UNEP FI's regional activities in Latin America.
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Portuguese (153 KB)
 
     
LATF Training
  Environmental & Social Risk Analysis E-Learning Programme
12-30 May, 2008
Latin America
(for CAF clients & partners)
 
     
LATF Events
  CEO Breakfast for the Venezuelan Financial Sector
29-30 October, 2007
Caracas, Venezuela
 
     
  Seminar: The Mexican Financial Sector and the Environment
4 October, 2007
Mexico City
 
     
  MoreAll Events  
LATF Publications
  PDF Report on the Legal Framework for Finance and Sustainability in Argentina (Spanish)
(800 KB | 47 pages)
 
    
  El Desarrollo Sostenible en el Sector Financiero Argentino. Marco Legal & Institucional.  
     
  PDF Finance and Sustainability in Argentina (Spanish)
(1.2 MB | 46 pages)
 
    
  El Desarrollo Sostenible en el Sector Financiero Argentino  
     
  MoreAll Publications