Pathways to Prosperity

Pathways to Prosperity (PTP) seeks to support capacity building in up to 10 developing countries across the Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands region, delivered through a partnership approach.

The program challenges the current development paradigm by demonstrating that rapid development can be achieved without significantly increasing emissions, and that this decoupling gives developing countries the best chance to achieve prosperity in a rapidly decarbonising world. For developing countries, the PTP approach offers much more than strategies for a prosperous, low emissions future: It supports the design and implementation of pathways aligned to many Sustainable Development Goals - pathways that improve energy affordability and independence, deliver cleaner air and improved health outcomes, grow jobs, reduce poverty, improve climate resilience and ensure today’s investments don’t risk future economic disadvantage. By helping to avoid projected significant growth in the emissions of developing countries, the program can also help delay use of the remaining carbon budget, contributing time to the active global effort to solve the climate crisis.