Argentina. Mar del Plata is the first city in that country to join the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The Initiative, which was launched in December 2010, allows cities to conduct a rapid self-assessment process on sustainability and climate change, urban development, and fiscal and government administration management, in order to identify weaknesses and seek efficiency-based solutions.
The announcement was made during the Sustainable Cities Seminar that was recently held in Montevideo, Uruguay, where IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno was present, who made the announcement of the expansion of this Initiative in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Jamaica, Colombia and Nicaragua.
Likewise, José Luis Lupo, country manager of the SOUTHERN Cone of the IDB, commented that Mar del Plata will be taken as the space to begin to forge a project that includes other Argentine cities that have the profile to achieve with more certainty the plan to be emerging and sustainable.
