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Payments for Forest Environmental Services, or (PFES), is a payment mechanism aimed to mobilize contributions from society for forest protection.

• 01/31/2016

Research suggests that a combination of updated building code compliance and newer, high performing buildings in Vietnam could yield a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040.

• 01/31/2016

The International Jobs and Economic Development Impacts (I-JEDI) model is a freely available economic model that estimates gross economic impacts from wind, solar, bipower, and geothermal energy projects for several different countries.

• 09/30/2016

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Low Carbon Resilient Development (LCRD) program in Colombia.

• 01/31/2016

The RE Data Explorer tool provides web-based analysis that can inform high-level prospecting, integrated planning, and policymaking to enable low emission development.

• 10/31/2016

This success story highlights two state-of-the-art tools focused on renewable energy development that were launched in February 2015 by USAID and the Philippine Department of Energy: (1) the 2014 Wind Energy Atlas for the Philippines and (2) the Geospatial Toolkit (GsT). 

• 02/28/2015

This fact sheet discusses the Enhancing Capacity for Low Emissions Development (EC-LEDS) program and various renewable energy technologies, including the RE Data Explorer tool, the Philippines Wind Prospector and the Bangladesh Wind Mapping Project.

• 06/30/2016

This fact sheet provides an overview of the collaboration between the Government of Mexico and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) under the Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development (EC-LEDS) program.

• 07/31/2016

Distributed generation (DG) can play a critical role in supporting achievement of development-focused climate goals articulated in the Paris Agreement and within Nationally Determined Contributions, low emission development strategies (LEDS), and other national and subnational climate plans.

• 09/30/2016

Understanding the impacts of low emission development strategies (LEDS) on broader development goals is of growing interest in countries around the world.

• 06/30/2016

This infographic highlights key results and highlights from the flagship U.S. government initiative Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development (EC-LEDS) between 2010-2016.

• 07/31/2017