Resources

The SA-LED final report describes the technical assistance and approaches that led to achieving these results and includes key lessons learned.

• 12/04/2020

Conventional anaerobic digestion to produce biogas is a proven, well known technology in the renewable energy and waste management sectors. 

• 10/16/2020

One of the challenges that policymakers face in promoting and justifying low emissions development (LED) or ‘green economy’ projects is effectively articulating and quantifying the positive socio-economic benefits that LED projects produce.

• 09/14/2020

This strategy and action plan identifies several challenges constraining the production of mohair and proposes solutions to green and grow the mohair industry in South Africa.

• 09/14/2020

The objective of this guide is to develop a short, conceptual approach for sub-national spheres of government, and municipalities in particular, for the financial evaluation of low emissions development (LED) projects. 

• 09/14/2020

Overexploitation and general degradation of mangrove forests is a common feature across the countries in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region.

• 09/11/2020

To help the Government of South Africa reduce its waste footprint in a sustainable way that aligns with the green economy vision in its National Development Plan 2030, the USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development (SA-LED) program developed the South Africa Waste Management Decision-Making Tool.

• 08/17/2020

In South Africa, comprehensive baseline data on energy consumption is the key to accessing grant funding from the national government’s Energy Efficient and Demand Side Management (EEDSM) program.

• 08/17/2020

This simplified financial model for the procurement of solar photovoltaic projects is designed to appraise the affordability of municipal solar photovoltaic projects.

• 08/17/2020

The municipal fleet costs and environmental impacts calculator can be used to estimate the costs, air pollution emissions of fossil fuel and alternative bus fleets, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with a given municipal bus fleet over ten years.

• 08/17/2020

This report explores lessons learned from five years of implementing the SA-LED program.

• 08/17/2020

As part of its support to various municipalities and organizations in South Africa in mainstreaming low emissions development, the South Africa Low Emissions Development (SA-LED) Program supported Blue Karoo Trust, a fish farm specializing in breeding catfish as an alternative to pilchards to sell commercially.

• 08/17/2020

Khangezile Primary School in South Africa was one of four schools chosen by Earthlife Africa, an environmental justice organization, to have renewable energy technology installed in the school as part of the Sustainable Energy and Livelihoods project.

• 08/17/2020

Wastewater treatment plants consume electricity for the operation of equipment and produce methane gas, a greenhouse gas, from the process of anaerobic digestion, used to break down solid waste.

• 08/14/2020

The South African National Standards (SANS) 10400-XA provides for the application of Regulation XA, or the minimum requirements of the South African National Building Regulations on energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in building design.

• 08/11/2020