VIDEO
Date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 9:00-10:30 (GMT-6)
Agenda
Introduction. Ana María Majano. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, INCAE Business School.
The housing NAMA in Mexico. Rocío Montaña and Arturo Palacios. Program Advisors, Federal Mortgage Society.
The Federal Mortgage Society and the EcoCasa Program. Ernesto Infante Barbosa. Deputy Director for Mortgage Market Infrastructure, Federal Mortgage Society.
About the webinar
The Federal Mortgage Society (SHF, for its acronym in Spanish), the National Housing Commission (CONAVI) and the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) lead the development of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (MAMA) on Sustainable Housing in Mexico. This initiative seeks to mitigate emissions through the use of eco-technologies, improvements in architectural design and the use of efficient building materials.
Within this context, SHF is executing the EcoCasa Program, with support from the German Development Bank (KfW) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This program channels concessional resources to housing developers to compensate for the difference in the cost of energy efficiency measures and eco-technologies required to achieve a 20% reduction in CO2 compared to a baseline house. Likewise, SHF is developing the Financial Component for the new housing NAMA, to complement the EcoCasa Program.
This webinar featured a presentation of the Sustainable Housing NAMA as the policy framework for the development of low-carbon housing, and the EcoCasa Program as a financial arrangement to supports its implementation.
The webinar was in Spanish.
About the speakers
ARTURO A. PALACIOS BRUN
He has over seven years of experience in technology management, operations and processes of financial infrastructure. In SHF serves as advisor on sustainable housing programs. He Is an industrial engineer from ITAM and Master in Policy and Technology Management from the University of Cambridge.
ROCÍO MONTAÑA NOVOA
Architect from the Iberoamerican University in Mexico, and Master in Sustainable Housing at University College London. She has worked as a consultant in urban development programs and housing in the British Embassy in Mexico and the GIZ. She is currently a consultant in SHF for EcoCasa Program.
ERNESTO INFANTE BARBOSA
He has 8 years experience in policies for social and economic development. He currently heads in SHF, housing finance programs with International Financial Institutions, as EcoCasa. He is Economist and Master in Public Administration from the Technological of Monterrey, and Master of Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics.