“No pilots fail, but no pilots scale.” Dr. Bruce Campbell, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security,...
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agriculture, climate finance, emissions, private-sector engagementGeography:
GlobalBlog
Since 1991, USAID has been investing in actions that help the Agency in understanding climate change risks and opportunities to reduce...
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adaptation, climate change integration, Climate Risk Management, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Global
As one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, South Africa is committed to implement an effective national climate change response...
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clean energy, climate finance, low emission development strategies, mitigationGeography:
Global
Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) is one of 10 challenge winners of the Global Resilience Challenge to transform interconnected risks into opportunities...
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adaptation, climate policy, gender, health, infrastructure, poverty, resilienceGeography:
Asia
The Climatelinks photo contest received an impressive total of 170 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 40 countries...
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adaptation, agriculture, biodiversity, clean energy, climate change integration, Climate Risk Management, coastal, conflict, disaster, food security, forest/forestry, gender, health, indigenous, infrastructure, land use, mitigation, mountain, partnership, resilience, safeguards, Self-reliance, urban, WASH, waterGeography:
Global
As residents of an island nation, Jamaicans are all too aware of the risks, and realities, of climate change. More than half of the population lives...
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adaptation, climate change integration, climate policy, Climate Risk Management, disaster, partnership, resilience, Self-relianceGeography:
Latin America & Caribbean
Countries, like people, rely on stories of the past to guide them in the present and help them prepare for the unknown. The genocide against Tutsi in...
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adaptation, Climate Risk Management, resilience, Self-reliance, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
South America may be sitting, unaware, on a pile of climate gold, ammunition in efforts to forestall global warming. New maps of tropical and...
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adaptation, biodiversity, forest/forestry, Natural Resource Management, Sustainable Land Management
The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project, funded by USAID, has been supporting farmers to use weather and climate information through...
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adaptation, Climate Risk Management, resilience, Self-reliance, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Global
In arid regions with already unreliable water and sanitation services, climate change is a threat multiplier for those who rely on functional...
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Climate Risk Management, mitigation, WASH, waterGeography:
Global
The clean energy sector has seen rapid growth. Countries around the world have embraced these technologies to achieve low emission development goals...
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clean energy, gender, indicators, low emission development strategiesGeography:
Global
This month, Climatelinks focused on games for development. Games, usually seen as a leisure activity, are also useful learning tools. In general,...
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adaptation, TrainingGeography:
Global
Climate change worsens familiar challenges to water and sanitation services, including limited access and poor infrastructure. Innovative approaches...
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private-sector engagement, Training, WASH, waterGeography:
Global
In Ghana, a changing climate is affecting the production of cocoa, one of the country’s major cash crops and its second leading foreign exchange...
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agriculture, forest/forestry, land tenure, private-sector engagement, sustainable landscapesGeography:
Africa
As the frequency and magnitude of climate-related hazards increases, these changes are affecting people’s livelihoods, particularly those of rural...
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agriculture, climate science, food security, resilience, Training, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa