On 3 September, during the Leaders Roundtable meeting of AFI’s Financial Inclusion Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC), members approved the Paramaribo Roadmap, a comprehensive plan to accelerate the uptake and impact of Inclusive Green Finance across the LAC region. 

“The Paramaribo Roadmap to Inclusive Green Finance is a call to collective action and a practical guide for one of the most critical transitions facing the LAC region,” said Ana Guadalupe Escobar, Manager of Financial System Stability and Public Policies at the Central Bank of El Salvador. “It balances the ambition for a green and inclusive future with the pragmatism of a phased, collaborative, evidence-based approach.” 

Specifically, the Roadmap aims to: 

• Strengthen regulators’ capacity to implement inclusive green finance policy 

• Build the capacity of financial supervisors and institutions around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk management 

• Ensure that financial services are accessible to vulnerable and underserved populations  

• Enable countries to develop and implement consistent, interoperable green taxonomies  

• Catalyze investment and collaboration among regulators and the private sector to scale IGF solutions and accelerate climate resilience  

Learn more about AFI’s Financial Inclusion Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean.