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The European Development Days (EDD) are Europe’s leading forum on international partnerships, organised by the European Commission.

Latin America is one of the worlds´s richest regions in terms of water resources. However, its inhabitants do not enjoy ensured access. In the Latin America and Caribbean region, 222 million people do not have access to safe drinking water (and 25 million live without access to basic water services).

The sustainable finance training services are part of the effort to fulfil UNEP FI's mission to "identify, promote and adopt environmental and sustainability best practices at all levels of financial institutions' operations".

UNEP FI. Since 2007, UNEP FI has offered an Online Course on "Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Financial Sector".

AECID, with the support of the European Commission, is launching a competition in the framework of the LAIF City Life initiative to give civil society, a voice in identifying and proposing projects that contribute to improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups in Latin American countries.

UNEP FI. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated important changes in much of the financial markets, where sustainable instruments have shown significant growth in Latin America, almost doubling the number of issues and amounts of debt during the period 2020-2021.