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African and Asian countries have developed Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).

• 03/23/2022
• Funke Aderonmu

Complex relationships between the climate, population growth, land cover change, and other interactions make decisions on land use planning, water permitting, and donor investments in natural resources management challenging. Decision-making on how and where to make investments is improving in Tanzania due to development partners becoming more proficient in using sophisticated environmental analysis tools such as composite index mapping.

• 10/08/2020
• Leif Kindberg, John Whiting

Farmers around the world increasingly rely on long-range weather forecasts when planning their crops. Traditional timing for planting is no longer as reliable as it used to be, and neither are the rains, thanks to shifts in climate patterns.

• 09/30/2019
• Christine Chumbler

To help encourage private investment in this monumental task, NREL has supported the Power Africa Beyond the Grid Program by helping build an enabling environment for bankable, microgrid investments.

• 11/20/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

While public sector interest in climate information services (CIS) is concerned with resilience in the face of climate variability and change, the private sector is beginning to recognize that there is a growing market for climate services. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are helping to bridge gaps in public services around the globe. 

• 02/20/2018
• Fatema Rajabali, Robert O’Sullivan, Jeremy Usher

Hosted by the African Union, the inaugural African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) - Africa Hydromet Forum brought together more than 500 policy makers to discuss and identify priority areas for improving CIS and building regional climate resilience.

• 02/15/2018
• Climatelinks