Ethiopia’s Triple Dividend: Prosperity for People, Nature and Climate

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has outlined its Ethiopia Country Transition Strategy (2026–2032), which aims to catalyze a transition toward inclusive green growth. The strategy focuses on transforming three interconnected human systems—cities, energy, and food, land, and water—while strengthening the underlying economics, finance, and governance to ensure Ethiopia's natural wealth leads to shared prosperity and climate resilience.

• Ethiopia faces significant systemic barriers to prosperity, including food insecurity affecting at least 20% of the population, stunting in 40% of children under 5, and a lack of basic electricity for 56% of the population.
• The Ethiopian government has set ambitious environmental targets, including restoring 22 million hectares of degraded land (approximately 20% of the country's land area) by 2030, doubling forest cover from 15% to 30% by 2030, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70.3% by 2035.
• WRI's urban strategy focuses on six target cities to make them inclusive and low-carbon. Goals by 2032 include restoring at least 1,800 hectares of degraded urban ecosystems, increasing urban vegetation from 18% to 25%, and halving traffic fatalities and serious injuries in these cities.
• In the energy sector, WRI aims to support the government's goal of 75% electricity access by 2030. Specific targets include delivering reliable energy to 25 health facilities and increasing incomes for at least 125,000 people in agriculture through the productive use of renewable energy.
• WRI's food, land, and water interventions target the Tekeze, Rift Valley, and Abbay basins. By 2032, the goal is to support 300,000 farmers across 150,000 hectares of land using regenerative agriculture and restore 10,000 hectares of degraded land and watersheds.
• The strategy emphasizes a 'count it, change it, scale it' approach, utilizing robust data and research to inform decision-making, testing solutions through demonstration projects, and scaling successes across regions.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Ethiopia’s Triple Dividend: Prosperity for People, Nature and Climate. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-05/wri-ethiopia-strategy-summary-2026-2032.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Ethiopia’s Triple Dividend: Prosperity for People, Nature and Climate. n.d. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-05/wri-ethiopia-strategy-summary-2026-2032.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendethiopias, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Ethiopia’s Triple Dividend: Prosperity for People, Nature and Climate}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-05/wri-ethiopia-strategy-summary-2026-2032.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }