The Amazon is a vast system that covers about 40% of South America’s territory, occupying around 6,700,000 km2 in nine countries. The Amazon has a crucial impact on regional and global processes: the Amazon River and the Amazon rainforest provide 35-40% of Latin America’s freshwater, regional water regulation and quality services, aquifer supply, air quality regulation, carbon storage, biochemical and medically important genetic resources, and recreational and tourism opportunities, as well as being the driving force of South America’s nutrient and water cycles. More than 50% of Bolivia’s land area is located in the Amazon biome.
Within this framework, the IDB is carrying out the Amazon Initiative, which aims to promote sustainable and inclusive development in the Amazon region, as well as to protect forests against deforestation. The Initiative also responds to clear opportunities to build a common vision for the sustainable development of the Amazon and to promote stronger regional and extra-regional collaboration models, with issues such as institutional strengthening, gender and diversity, and forest conservation as central cross-cutting themes.
CICLA, together with the Bolivian consulting firm BITS, is carrying out the characterization of the Bolivian Amazonian complex in order to obtain updated knowledge that will allow (in the future) to accompany the different efforts of the Government on issues related to climate mitigation and resilience, as well as the sustainable economic and productive reactivation of the Bolivian Amazonian productive complex, above all, from an environmental sustainability perspective.
Client/Partner: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)