In 2012, USAID missions launched 11 activities receiving both biodiversity conservation and global climate change adaptation funding. This brief describes lessons learned from integrating these activities in order to create best practices for future programming.
The report shares 17 lessons from CRIS program activities. A key theme is that cities need support to implement a “development-first” approach using USAID’s Climate-Resilient Development Framework.
The USAID Biodiversity Policy builds upon the Agency’s long history of conserving a global biological heritage for current and future generations and reflects a deep understanding of the role that healthy natural systems play in achieving the Agency’s human-development goals.
Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) is an indicator-based tool that assesses the policy and regulatory environment for investment in sustainable energy.
