Resources

This working paper summarizes current knowledge concerning the relationship between investment in agriculture and the conversion of forest lands. It describes approaches to agricultural production commonly proposed to reduce the likelihood that agricultural investment will result in the conversion of forest land.

• 12/30/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

As prices for clean energy and storage technologies continue to fall and nations race to cut their emissions, integrating higher shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) becomes more urgent and more complex. New opportunities for policymakers, energy planners, and utilities are unlocking a multitude of benefits that come with integrating battery energy storage systems into the grid.

• 12/27/2021
• USAID

USAID’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE) program helps partner countries meet bold international climate commitments by accelerating their transition to more widely accessible, affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy that spurs economic growth, powers health systems, and reduces emissions.

• 12/17/2021
• USAID

Brazil has immense potential for land-based climate mitigation—also referred to as Natural Climate Solutions (NCS). By most assessments, Brazil has more potential for NCS than any other country.

• 12/01/2021

Joining efforts to improve resilience for the Aral Sea ecosystem and its human communities.

• 11/30/2021
• USAID

The goals of this report are to familiarize the reader with possible SL interventions in Madagascar; to evaluate the magnitude of the climate mitigation potential of each of those interventions; to gather spatially-explicit data showing what parts of the country could be prioritized for different interventions; and to identify gaps and limitations in the existing data.

• 11/30/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

In a year punctuated by continued restrictions due to COVID 19, USAID Green Invest Asia forged ahead and reached new milestones.

• 11/24/2021
• USAID Green Invest Asia 

This report reviews the challenges and opportunities for donors such as USAID to engage in the mining sector in developing countries as it relates to the green energy transition. Although 29 minerals were identified as playing a current or potential role in green energy technologies, this study reviewed 16 mined in USAID-presence countries that are projected to be particularly important, including 9 that are on the 2018 US Critical Minerals list.

• 11/22/2021
• USAID

At COP-26, USAID announced an ambitious set of targets to advance the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). PREPARE will support developing countries and communities in vulnerable situations around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change. These impacts are already being felt, and USAID brings significant experience to bear on supporting the climate resilience of developing countries.

• 11/06/2021
• USAID

USAID SEGAR brings the government, businesses, and local communities together to make business-as-usual commodities production less harmful to the environment, more beneficial to local farmers, and more profitable for businesses.

• 11/01/2021
• USAID

Through SINAR, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supports Indonesia’s goal to expand reliable and equitable energy services to advance sustainable development and inclusive economic growth.

• 11/01/2021
• USAID

PREPARE activates a coordinated, whole-of-government approach to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change by 2030.

• 11/01/2021

This is the final report of the second phase of the Hariyo Ban Program. “Hariyo Ban” means “green forests” in Nepali. Hariyo Ban was a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded initiative implemented by a consortium comprising World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (lead organization), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), and the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN). The first phase of the Program (Hariyo Ban I) ran from 2011 to 2016, and the second phase (Hariyo Ban II) from 2016 to 2021.

• 10/29/2021
• USAID, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Nepal

This is the final report of the second phase of the Hariyo Ban Program. “Hariyo Ban” means “green forests” in Nepali. The first phase of the Program (Hariyo Ban I) ran from 2011 to 2016, and the second phase (Hariyo Ban II) from 2016 to 2021. This volume contains detailed annexes.

• 10/29/2021
• USAID, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Nepal

Catalyzing private finance for climate action is essential to achieving goals for limiting global warming. USAID can play a pivotal role in climate action across partner countries by increasing funding for activities that catalyze and crowd in private capital to climate-focused investments. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates USD 1.6 trillion is needed annually to keep global warming to the 1.5-2°C target range; only 38 percent of this was funded in 2019. Blended finance, the strategic use of public resources to attract private capital, represents an opportunity for USAID to help close this gap and dramatically increase the scale and scope of climate finance in the coming years.

• 10/25/2021
• USAID