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

WRI's 2026–2032 strategy for Ethiopia focuses on three interconnected systems—cities, energy, and food, land, and water—to drive a low-carbon transition. The plan targets specific river basins and cities to implement nature-based solutions, expand renewable energy access, and promote regenerative agriculture, supported by improvements in national governance and finance.

• Ethiopia faces significant systemic barriers to prosperity, including food insecurity affecting at least one-fifth of the population, stunting in two out of five children under age 5, and a lack of basic electricity for 56% of the population.
• The Ethiopian government has set ambitious environmental targets, including a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70.3% by 2035, achieving 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030, and restoring 22 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
• WRI's urban strategy targets six cities—Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Hawassa, Arba Minch, Batu, and Bahir Dar—with goals to halve traffic fatalities and serious injuries and increase urban vegetation from 18% to 25% by 2032.
• In the energy sector, WRI aims to increase incomes for at least 125,000 people in agriculture and provide reliable energy to 25 health facilities through the productive use of renewable energy.
• WRI's food, land, and water interventions target the Tekeze, Rift Valley, and Abbay basins, aiming to support 300,000 farmers across 150,000 hectares in regenerative agriculture by 2032.
• To support systemic change, WRI focuses on strengthening the Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Platform to better attract and coordinate public, private, and domestic finance.

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} }