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News : CLIMATE FOCUS PART OF WINNING CONSORTIUM FOR $20 MILLION USAID ASIA REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES PROGRAM

31 January 2011

Winrock International, along with SNV and Climate Focus were recently awarded a 5-year, $20 million cooperative agreement with USAID to implement a new Asia Regional Sustainable Landscapes Program. The program will strengthen the capacity of developing countries in the region to achieve meaningful and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry-land use sector and to participate in and benefit from the emerging international REDD+ framework.

The Program will focus on establishing policy and market incentives for GHG reductions; building technical capacity for economic valuation of forest ecosystem services and monitoring changes in forest carbon stocks; and demonstrating and replicating innovation in sustainable land management through regional platforms and partnerships. Climate Focus will lead the Program’s work on law and policy and market mechanisms to support REDD+. The program will focus on six countries in Asia - Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Vietnam – with lessons learnt shared throughout the region. The official announcement of the award can be found here and additional information on the Program is available here.

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