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Communtity spotlights blog - climate & PPPs

Community Spotlights: Public-Private Partnerships & Climate Change

February 28, 2018
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Katherine Cunningham
Community Spotlights
This month Climatelinks focused on climate change-related public-private partnerships (PPPs). We highlighted approaches and experiences of PPPs...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, clean energy, mitigation, Monitoring & Evaluation, partnership, private-sector engagement, sustainable landscapes, Training
Geography: 
Global
Communtity spotlights blog - climate & conflict

Community Spotlights: Climate Change and Conflict Resources

January 31, 2018
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Katherine Cunningham
Community Spotlights
This month Climatelinks focused on the connections and complexities between climate change and conflict, environmental peacebuilding and conflict...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, conflict, food security, mitigation, reducing emissions from deforestation & degradation (REDD+), resilience, sustainable landscapes, water
Geography: 
Global
Visiting First Solar-Powered Building

Community Spotlights: Clean Energy Resources

November 30, 2017
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Katherine Cunningham
Community Spotlights
This month Climatelinks focused on policies, programs, finance facilities and partnerships contributing to the rapid scale-up up clean energy. Below...
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Keywords: 
clean energy, grid integration, mitigation, private-sector engagement
Geography: 
Global
Haitian farmers

Community Spotlights: Agriculture & Climate Change Resources

October 30, 2017
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
This month Climatelinks focused on the many elements of agriculture that touch on and are impacted by climate change. Explore below the many...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, agriculture, food security, mitigation, resilience
Geography: 
Global
Indonesia Sea Grass

Community Spotlights: Ecosystem-based Adaptation Resources

September 20, 2017
Katherine Cunningham
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
This month Climatelinks focuses on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA). Explore below the many resources, blogs, knowledge portals and communities of...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, ecosystems
Geography: 
Global
Newly constructed Ennery bridge in Haiti.

Engineering Design Builds Climate-Resilience in Haiti and Dominica

June 15, 2017
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Blog Post
In 2008, Haiti faced four major tropical storms affecting nearly 250,000 people. These events caused flash floods and mudslides that led to loss of...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate change integration, climate risk management, coastal, disaster, infrastructure, resilience, transportation
Geography: 
Latin America & Caribbean

Community Spotlights: Resources to Support Screening for and Managing Climate Risk

June 8, 2017
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
Climatelinks is focusing on climate risk management this month. Explore the following resources and blogs covering this topic, shared with us by...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate risk management, climate screening, disaster, mitigation, resilience, sustainable landscapes, vulnerability assessment, weather & climate services
Geography: 
Global

Community Spotlights: Health and Climate Change Resources

April 27, 2017
Katherine Cunningham
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
Climatelinks focused on climate change’s impacts to human health this month. We featured a potential malaria transmission early warning system based...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate change integration, climate science, health
Geography: 
Global

Community Spotlights: Land Management and Climate Change Resources

March 28, 2017
Katherine Cunningham
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
This blog kicks off Climatelinks' “community spotlights” blog series which will highlight germane resources produced by others in the climate change...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, forest/forestry, indigenous, land tenure, land use, mitigation, sustainable landscapes
Geography: 
Global
6 steps to success

USAID’s Support of Successful Climate Smart Agriculture

June 28, 2016
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Noel Gurwick
Blog Post
As Climatelinks closes out its climate smart agriculture theme this month, we highlight one example of how USAID is helping to identify how...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, agriculture, emissions, evaluation, food security, low emission development strategies, mitigation, Monitoring & Evaluation, partnership, resilience
Geography: 
Africa, Asia, Global, Latin America & Caribbean
Of 162 pledges for climate action (INDCs), 119 (in red) intend to make emissions reductions in agriculture, and 127 (in blue) list agriculture as a priority for adaptation.

Agriculture Matters in the INDCs: Data and Maps

June 21, 2016
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Blog Post
As of April 28, 2016, 162 pledges for climate action - known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs - were submitted following the...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, agriculture, climate change integration, climate finance, climate policy, food security, gender, mitigation, sustainable landscapes
Geography: 
Global
Project mini-sites

USAID Project Mini Sites Now on Climatelinks!

March 16, 2016
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Blog Post
Climatelinks now features mini-sites for climate change projects managed from USAID/Washington. The mini-sites feature information about the...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, clean energy, climate change integration, mitigation, sustainable landscapes
Geography: 
Global

Join USAID at the COP 21 U.S. Center via Live Webcast!

December 1, 2015
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Announcements
USAID's Global Climate Change team is actively supporting the U.S. Center at the U.N. COP 21 in Paris. We would like to highlight several events that...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, clean energy, climate change integration, mitigation, Monitoring & Evaluation, sustainable landscapes, Training
Geography: 
Global