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USAID's Climate Strategy in Action: Empowering Women Leads to Sustainable Power

This blog is part of the USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action series. It expands on a 2023 Climatelinks Photo Contest winner from Kenya.
  • Alec Jacobson
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Clean Energy, Clean Air

To mitigate air pollution in developing countries, we need to examine its causes in local contexts and support solutions that are affordable, sustainable, and reliable.
  • Jane Clifford

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Road to COP28: Jamaica

This blog about Jamaica is part of a series of country spotlights Climatelinks is publishing ahead of COP28.
  • Ariel Schindler
Scientist Glenroy Brown assists farmer Liz Levy with the application of a seasonal drought-related forecast tool while out in the field in Amity Hall, St. Catherine, Jamaica.
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Still Standing, Still Serving in the Midst of Extreme Weather

Between 2014 and 2015, Jamaica experienced one of the worst seasons of drought in recent history. The impact on the Jamaican economy, especially rural livelihoods, was devastating. According to reports, the annual agricultural production declined by 30 percent from 2013 to 2014. This, along with brush fires, resulted in a $J1 billion ($6.5 million) loss for the economy.
  • Kimberly Weller
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Engaging Jamaican Youth in Climate Action

There is great value in pushing for youth education in climate change action. Designing projects that focus on issues youth care about can lead to unexpected, positive outcomes. And engaging youth as active participants with the autonomy and agency to act can have lasting effects long after a development project ends.
  • Mike Thayer
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USAID’s Jamaica Programs Have Lessons for the World

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 within a mile of the coast; most of the those who live inland are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods.
  • Christine Chumbler
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Jamaica’s Drought Tool Could Turn Table on Climate Change

On a very dry November 2013, Jamaica’s Meteorological Service made its first official drought forecast when the newly developed Climate Predictability Tool (CPT) was used to predict a high probability of below average rainfall in the coming three months.
  • Zadie Neufville