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Recent clean energy projects in Latin America show that even large, utility-scale renewable power projects can bring durable benefits to historically marginalized indigenous communities, if the private sector and government join forces to recognize community rights and involve indigenous groups in project design from the start. 

• 11/15/2022
• Christine Pendzich

We need a better approach to climate finance, one that centers on the people who live on and manage the world’s most precious resources.

• 06/06/2022
• Stevie Smyth Valdez, Mauricio Martinez Miramontes

Why do many community-based forestry enterprises (CBFEs) perform poorly even after years of donor and government investment? This was one of the questions that motivated a USAID Productive Landscape (ProLand) project investigation into CBFEs as a strategy for improving land management.

• 08/14/2020
• Mark Donahue, Ian Deshmukh

The Rainforest Alliance is implementing the USAID-supported Alliance for Sustainable Landscapes and Markets project in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Quintana Roo, Mexico. This alliance involves groups of producers, nonprofit organizations, public institutions, enterprises, and consumers in taking actions towards a better future where people and nature thrive in harmony.

• 02/26/2020
• Graciela Zavala

USAID/Mexico supported an assessment of the energy and greenhouse gas emission benefits associated with pilot projects designed to reduce emissions in Mexico. The online CLEER Tool calculated clean energy benefits for these pilots, providing an easy way to estimate and track current and future energy benefits and emissions reductions from a wide range of clean energy activities. 

• 09/15/2017
• Derina Man, Kevin Kurkul, John Venezia