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The primary purpose of this document, and the full assessment from which its content is derived, is to assist USAID staff in identifying opportunities for designing new interventions that integrate climate finance into their existing/planned energy sector programming.

• 01/14/2022
• NREL, USAID

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

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

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

This report provides a strategic summary of USAID/Tanzania Mission activities regarding impact on climate change adaptation and resilience, and reviews M&E system and performance indicators to assess how Mission impacts on climate change adaptation were captured.

• 06/30/2016
• USAID/Tetra Tech

A study commissioned by USAID/Mexico to inform the design of USAID's sustainable landscapes program in Mexico

• 01/31/2017
• USAID/Tetra Tech

The Guatemala Biodiversity Project was a critical and timely response to growing trends impacting protected areas that, if continued, could have led to significant loss of key conservation gains made in Guatemala. The project addressed institutional and resource challenges and constraints at the heart of encroaching threats to key ecosystems. Through a local systems approach, it improved management and governance of the country’s System of Protected Areas (SIGAP) at the national level and in interventions areas in Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Maya Biosphere Reserve, and the Pacific Coast. This final report describes the project’s activities, approaches and results achieved, and recommendations for sustainability of the achievements.

• 06/15/2021
• USAID, Chemonics International Inc.

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

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

USAID’s 10-year Hariyo Ban Program aims to increase ecosystem and community resilience in the Chitwan-Annapurna and Terai Arc landscapes. Its name means “green forests are the wealth of Nepal”—and in addition to providing natural resources for local people, forests play a vital role sequestering carbon, regulating water flows, stabilizing steep hillsides and conserving biodiversity.

• 03/01/2021
• USAID, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Nepal

This assessment reviews options for USAID landscape partners to promote sustainable growth in Tanzania’s bee product industries. The report analyzes honey and beeswax value chains to identify constraints and opportunities to increase production, refine processing, streamline transportation and meet domestic and export market specifications and demand in ways that target conservation outcomes, and increased producer incomes. Recommendations focus on producer group institutional capacity, market information, financing, and market access.

• 10/01/2019
• USAID

USAID’s Climate Readiness Plan outlines actions USAID will implement across the Agency’s operations management functions and programs to adapt to the effects of the changing climate.

• 10/21/2021
• USAID

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

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

• 11/30/2021
• USAID

This study compared the potential changes in the distribution of 59 top commercial marine species by 2050s under two climate change scenarios.

• Rollan C. Geronimo