Amazon Vision 2020 Report
USAID’s Amazon Vision unifies the Agency’s goals to combat deforestation, conserve biodiversity, create environmentally friendly economic opportunities, improve the management of important landscapes, and support Indigenous rights.
This report provides insight into USAID's achievements in biodiversity and sustainable landscape initiatives across Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Guyana, and Suriname. In 2020, USAID and its global partners improved the management and conditions of key landscapes in the Amazon, improving land management in more than 48 million hectares, an area larger than Sweden. Improving land management and keeping forests standing sequesters and reduces greenhouse gases. An estimated 38.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) were avoided, sequestered, or reduced as a result of U.S. Government sustainable landscapes programming, the equivalent of 4.4 million U.S. homes’ energy use for one year.