This year’s annual IDB assembly focused on the role of the private sector in addressing the need for clean energy and the threat of climate change. Fabrizio Opertti, the IDB’s head of Trade and Investment said that the goal of the meeting is to create a “mechanism for hemispheric dialogue” between the private and public sectors.
James Scriven, manager of the IDB’s private-sector arm said that 90% of the Caribbean’s region will live in cities by 2050 and by 2030, demand for energy will have doubled.
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