Climate Case Studies
Philippines: Fish Right Activity Climate Risk Management Case Study
This case study describes Fish Right’s climate risk management actions in the Philippines during its first three years of implementation.
Case Study: Lessons from Engaging the Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: LandScale
USAID/Mexico’s LandScale activity applies the LandScale Assessment Framework to evaluate and communicate landscape sustainability in the Sierra de Tapalpa landscape in the state of Jalisco.
Lessons Learned from the USAID Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition
Integration of biodiversity objectives and considerations with other development sectors has the potential to increase the sustainability of USAID programming, amplify results, and save costs.
Allies in Biodiversity Conservation: Integrating Indigenous Human Rights and Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon
This case study was recognized for identifying support to indigenous peoples as a key approach for conservation and sustainable landscapes and using political economy analysis to inform integrated climate, biodiversity, and democracy, human rights, and governance programming decisions.
Local Communities Address Drivers of Biodiversity Loss: Iguana Habitat in the Dominican Republic-Integrating Biodiversity, Climate Risk Management, and Sustainable Landscapes
The Caribbean Development Program operating unit, based in the Dominican Republic, implements regional biodiversity programming across the Caribbean.
Protecting Ecosystem Goods and Services: Integrated Approach to Biodiversity Conservation in a Philippine Protected Area
Recognized by the Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition judges as an example of programming that describes processes and enabling conditions needed to facilitate integration and provides a clear narrative of steps taken in implementing integrated climate, biodiversity, and democracy, human rights, and governance programming.
Amazonia Verde: Productive Conservation in Amazonian Landscapes
The Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition judges recognized this as a compelling example of USAID/Peru’s comprehensive approach to integrated design and the use of geospatial mapping to support integrated design of biodiversity and climate change programming.
Supporting Beneficiaries in a Limited Funding Environment: Climate Change Adaptation and WASH Programming with Biodiversity Benefits in the Dominican Republic
This case study highlights USAID's work in the Dominican Republic to jointly promote climate adaptation and resilience to address a lack of adequate sanitation and wastewater treatment facilities—which limits the population’s access to clean water and presents a key threat to the country’s coastal biodiversity in the form of untreated sewage.
An Interdependent Vision: Conserving Biodiversity While Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Land Use Change In Indonesia
The USAID/Indonesia LESTARI activity combines sustainable landscapes and biodiversity conservation objectives through an interdependent vision of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving terrestrial biodiversity conservation by integrating sustainable land-use planning and forest conservation in Indonesia’s most carbon- and biodiversity-rich forests on Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua.
Coastal Resilience to Climate Change: Integrating Biodiversity, Adaptation, and Sustainable Landscapes in West Africa
USAID’s West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WA BiCC) activity aims to improve biodiversity conservation, increase climate resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across forest landscapes in West Africa.
USAID Ecosystem-based Adaptation Series Synthesis
This synthesis document draws on a series of evidence summaries and case studies generated by USAID that highlight the potential role of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to address climate vulnerabilities and contribute to development results.
Case Study: Maintaining Water Security in Peru Through Green Infrastructure
This ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) case study highlights the USAID/Peru mission’s three sub-national projects, which focused on building local community and government capacity for improved environmental governance and implementing green infrastructure approaches to strengthen ecosystems and stabilize the provision of water.
Case Study: Improving Ecosystem Management to Strengthen Resilience to Extreme Weather in the Philippines
This ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) case study highlights the USAID/Philippines mission’s Emerging Champions for Biodiversity Conservation and Improved Ecosystems Services (ECBCIES) project, which focused on conserving biodiversity and strengthening ecosystems in six key biodiversity areas to help communities adapt to climate change.
Case Study: Conserving Ecosystems to Support Climate Resilience in Bangladesh
This ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) case study highlights the USAID/Bangladesh mission’s Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) project, which focused on conserving biodiversity and strengthening ecosystems in four rural, biologically significant regions to help communities adapt to climate change.
Trees for Global Benefit: Empowering Ugandan Women with Land Concessions and Tree Planting Benefits: A local-level, implementation initiative
Trees for Global Benefit (TGB), an initiative of the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST), is a cooperative community carbon offset scheme developed to enable poverty reduction through effective management and protection of forestry ecosystems on which local people depend.
Case Study: Restoring Coral Reefs in the Face of Climate Change in the Seychelles
This ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) case study highlights the USAID/Southern Africa Regional Mission’s Reef Rescuers project, which is restoring damaged coral reefs to increase their resilience and reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to sea level rise and extreme weather events.
Case Study: Maintaining Water Security in Critical Water Catchments in Mongolia
This ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) case study highlights the key EbA activities under the Ecosystem-based Adaptation Approach to Maintaining Water Security in Critical Water Catchments in Mongolia project and how the project helped vulnerable communities in two areas of rural Mongolia adapt to climate change.
The Knowledge and Skills Needed to Engage in REDD+: A Competencies Framework
From forest-dependent communities to government staff, many stakeholders are in need of comprehensive information to effectively engage in the design and implementation of REDD+ activities.
Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers: Lessons learned (Task Force Meeting Report)
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins at the World Agroforestry Centre (ASB–ICRAF) have partnered to deliver a third and final phase of the Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers project.
Payment for Ecosystem Services: Developing Forest Carbon Projects in Nepal
This case study identifies the potential for forest carbon projects in Nepal; summarizes the eligibility requirements under the various carbon markets and registries - Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA); and provides a specific case example from Dolakha District in Nepal.
