Resources

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

Blended finance can catalyze private sector investment for climate action with financial structuring that enables impact-oriented donors and commercial capital providers to invest alongside each other to increase the speed and scale of climate solutions.

• 10/25/2021
• USAID

USAID and NREL collaborate in Bangladesh to improve energy access and security and stimulate economic growth through the deployment of advanced energy systems.

• 09/01/2021
• NREL

Ecuador presents many opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agriculture, land use, and forestry sectors. The country has committed to reducing its emissions from land use change by 1.7 million metric tons (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually, unconditional on any donor investment, and by an additional 6.7 MtCO2e provided sufficient additional investment. An assessment of 16 potential land-based mitigation opportunities found that the total cost-effective potential in Ecuador was in fact about 33.6 MtCO2e annually. That estimate only includes activities that would not have negative impacts on biodiversity or on food and fiber supply. 

• 08/31/2021
• USAID/Tetra Tech

Through its Climate Change Adaptation activity, USAID will build the capacity of the private sector, civil society, and government to respond and adapt to climate change in ways that contribute to sustained, inclusive, market-based growth. It will help identify and scale up innovative solutions to climate-related challenges, strengthen governance to address climate-related risks, and improve access to high-quality information for decision-making to reduce vulnerability to climate change.

• 08/13/2021

USAID’s GTG program put in place the building blocks for power sector reforms that are central to meeting India’s renewable energy ambitions.

• 08/01/2021

This report highlights USAID INVEST’s climate finance portfolio, illustrating a variety of climate-focused activities for both mitigation and adaptation.

• 06/30/2021
• USAID

This brief documents lessons-learned from the USAID Reforestation Project in Haiti, including the importance of social capital for resilience and establishing community buy-in.

• 04/30/2021
• Rebecca Chamberlin, Emily Keller-Coffey, Andy Hale, Oscar Jacob

Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) are applied to Policies, Plans and Programs (PPP) being designed or revised to ensure that they are based on principles of sustainable development.

• 04/05/2021

USAID LESTARI partners with the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and conserve biodiversity in carbon rich and biologically significant forest and mangrove ecosystems.

• 04/05/2021

This lesson learned technical brief describes village spatial and development planning, forest and natural resource management, and monitoring and evaluation that contributed to effective collaborative management of Papua’s forests.

• 04/05/2021

The purpose of this brief is to document the lessons learned from the Forest Management Unit (FMU) strengthening activities in three USAID LESTARI partner provinces – Aceh, Central Kalimantan and Papua.

• 04/05/2021

This lessons learned brief discusses the importance of USAID LESTARI engaging with this private sector and the context of production forestry over the last two decades.

• 04/05/2021

This paper analyses current developments specifically in land use licensing governance in Indonesia and draws out the implications for the work of donors such as USAID supporting land governance programs.

• 04/05/2021

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the lessons learned from USAID LESTARI’s work on Domestic Resource Mobilization for sustainable forest management and conservation in Indonesia.

• 04/05/2021