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Washington D.C., 24 July, 2013 - USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia Gregory Beck, in remarks to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on USAID's efforts to protect the environment and promote food and water security in the Asia-Pacific region, highlighted the role of the LEAD program in helping

Bogor, Indonesia, 1 August, 2013 - A new online portal for monitoring, reporting and verifying (MRV) carbon emissions allows researchers and practitioners to better manage forest inventories, its creators say. The Forest Carbon Database (FCDB) can be used to share measurements of carbon pools — reservoirs with the capacity to store and release carbon, the chemical basis of all known life and climate warming gases. The FCDB allows researchers and practitioners to better manage forest inventories. 

Bangkok, Thailand - The LEAD program trained 42 professionals from ten Asian countries on the Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System modeling software, known as the LEAP tool, during the week of July 15-19, 2013.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released a report outlining results of its work from 2008-2012 in the Asia-Pacific region, highlighting the need to continue addressing social inclusion, climate impacts and governance issues. Introducing the report, titled 'Leveraging Change for Better Lives: UNDP in Asia and the Pacific,' Ajay Chibber, UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, commented that, while annual growth in human development has been higher for the Asia-Pacific than any other region, income, social and gender disparities continue to

June 2013 - Philippine officials and greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory experts received training to support the Philippines Climate Change Commission’s efforts to create a sustainable national GHG inventory system at a workshop for the forestry and energy sectors in Manila (June 26-28).

The move to green growth is fundamental to tackling the increasing problem of climate change, while protecting and enhancing economic and social development. It provides a compelling vision to build political support, achieve practical results and transform the political economy to overcome barriers and vested interests. The Green Growth Best Practice Project (GGBP) is a global network of practitioners and policy makers that identifies and shares best practices of green growth planning and implementation from around the world.

Field Training on Carbon Stock Assessment and Emissions Inventory in Asian Mangroves

Bangkok, Thailand, April 5, 2013 - A comprehensive assessment of clean energy resource potential is a critical building block for planning and implementing a low emission development strategy, or LEDS. During April 4-5, 2013 a regional training workshop on "Renewable Energy Resource Assessment and Geospatial Analysis" was held in Bangkok, Thailand. The U.S.

Innovative Public-Private Partnerships Critical To Achieving Low-Carbon Growth

In its role as Secretariat of the Asia Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Partnership, the USAID LEAD program, in collaboration with the Indonesia National Council on Climate Change, organized the first in-person meeting of the Partnership's Steering Committee on March 1, 2013 in Pattaya, Thailand, on the sidelines of the LEDS Global Partnership second annual workshop.