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by and - This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region.
Ethiopia
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by Meseret Shiferaw and Will Anderson - October 23, 2020Forest products are already a staple of Ethiopia's economy, adding more than $2.6 billion to Ethiopia’s GDP. Almost three-fourths of Ethiopia's land could benefit from more trees, offering a massive opportunity for Ethiopia's economic wellbeing.
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Building sustainable, adaptive, resilient urban water systems
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by Will Anderson - October 25, 2019Entrepreneurs across Africa are growing businesses that revitalize degraded land and fight climate change, while turning a profit and creating jobs. Investors and lawmakers should pay attention.
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by Molly Bergen - July 09, 2019Deforestation rates in the Congo Basin — historically lower than in the Amazon and southeast Asia — are on the rise. It's not just a problem for the 80 million people who rely on the forests for food and livelihoods; research shows the world's second-largest rainforest regulates weather patterns across Africa.
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A mapping platform to connect affordable, reliable and clean energy to sustainable development solutions for all.
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by Kitty van der Heijden, Eliza L. Swedenborg and Zablon Adane - October 16, 2017Ethiopia, the fastest growing global economy, aims to increase prosperity for its citizens. Climate change, conflicting water demands and watershed degradation could stand in its way. Sustainable water management will be essential to maintaining Ethiopia's progress.
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Supporting national governments with tools and resources to track progress toward meeting their national climate commitments and to strengthen climate action.
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by Chris Reij and Robert Winterbottom - February 15, 2017We can turn an India-sized patch of degraded land green again, but only if we learn from early successes in Niger, Ethiopia and Costa Rica.
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September 28, 2015
Ethiopia Rising is the story of the phenomenal environmental transformation of a nation told through the experience of one man, Aba Hawi, who mobilizes an entire community to regenerate the surrounding hillsides, and in doing so saved his village from certain extinction. For a generation brought up on Live-Aid with its images of a desperate nation, little has emerged in the mainstream media to correct this. Ethiopia Rising goes a long way to challenge these out-of-date perceptions.
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by Chris Reij - July 28, 2015A new documentary tells the story of how Ethiopia’s people restored vast areas of degraded land to productivity.
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by Mathilde Bouyé - July 24, 2015The Action Agenda approved in Addis Ababa last week offers the right vision for a global shift towards a low-carbon, inclusive global economy.
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by Kelly Levin, David Rich, Eliza Northrop and Kathleen Mogelgaard - June 11, 2015Ethiopia’s INDC sets an excellent example for developing countries to be ambitious in their post-2020 commitment design.
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by Robert Winterbottom - May 21, 2015Some farmers are combating climate change, boosting food security and improving their livelihoods by protecting and managing on-farm trees. A new report details how to spread this practice throughout the African drylands.
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by Aaron Minnick, Tesfay Woldemariam, Chris Reij, Fred Stolle, Florence Landsberg and James Anderson - October 21, 2014The New York Declaration on Forests issued at the UN Climate Summit last month includes a global pledge to restore 350 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes by 2030.
Several countries confirmed their commitment to restore millions of hectares of degraded land, with Ethiopia making one of the most significant pledges—setting a target to restore 15 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into productivity by 2025.
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by Kathleen Buckingham and Lars Laestadius - June 24, 2014Reflecting on World Forest Week 2014, where the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN launched a Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism to help countries meet the Bonn Challenge to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020, we need to further think about creating the rich landscapes that the world needs.
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by Jared Finnegan, Thomas Damassa, Kate DeAngelis and Kelly Levin - February 2014The World Resources Institute (WRI) is working through the Measurement and Performance Tracking (MAPT) project to help enhance national capacities in developing countries to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emis
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Building the capacity of developing countries to effectively track progress toward meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.