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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its USAID Green Invest Asia project, facilitated more than 30 Cambodian banks’ carbon accounting efforts as part of a partnership with the Association of Banks in Cambodia. In a May 13 webinar, USAID Green Invest Asia convened consulting firm, South Pole, and Rabo Foundation to share processes and profit incentives for banks to report on carbon emissions.
The USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons Project (USAID Thailand CTIP) works to reduce trafficking in persons (TIP) and better protect the rights of trafficked persons in Thailand by reducing demand and incentives for using trafficked labor, empowering at-risk populations to safeguard their rights, and strengthening protection systems for survivors. USAID Thailand CTIP supports the Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking and accelerates efforts to implement Thailand’s anti-human trafficking strategy.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Green Invest Asia project, successfully facilitated an equity investment by international financial institutions into Grandis Timber, Cambodia’s first and only Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified plantation. The buyer, a leading Cambodian commercial reforestation company, has pledged to retain the plantation’s FSC certification and status as a leading example of sustainable forestry in Cambodia.
The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has committed an additional $1.5 million to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Kingdom of Thailand. In coordination with the Royal Thai Government, USAID will partner with local and international organizations to increase its support to curb the pandemic.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Green Invest Asia project, has launched a study on cocoa-coconut intercropping that will help increase the farmers’ income and lower carbon emissions in the southern Philippines.
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