environmental and climate change sustainability Įmerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC) ’s MethodologyĮmerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean need planning processes that are specific and action-oriented-capable of bringing about quality of life for citizens in the region.

This transversal approach is based on three pillars: ESC employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to tackle the main roadblocks that prevent the sustainable growth of emerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC) of the Housing and Urban Development Division of the IDB is a non-reimbursable technical assistance program providing direct support to national and subnational governments in the development and execution of city action plans.

Over the past two decades, the region’s urban population and economic growth has been increasingly taking place in intermediate sized cities, which are expanding exponentially. Between 19, the region urbanized at an unprecedented rate, raising its urban population from 50 to 80 per cent (as per cent of total) a figure that is expected to climb to 86 per cent by 2050. Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized developing region on the planet, with 8 out of 10 people living in cities.

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