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NREL identified ten climate finance levers that could be applied to USAID programs to increase the scale of investment in clean energy and energy efficiency in partner countries.

• 02/28/2024
• Sophie Schrader

USAID is putting the infrastructure in place to phase out fossil fuels and improve energy efficiency while expanding energy access in hard-to-reach places. Read on to learn how the Agency promotes clean energy and improved climate and development outcomes across the world.

• 06/27/2023
• USAID

Over the course of 2022, Climatelinks has amplified dozens of blogs that bring to light important topics ranging from renewable energy to water security. Check out our top five blogs from 2022!

• 12/20/2022
• Ariel Schindler

Did you miss the ‘USAID at COP27’ newsletter? We’ve got you covered with the recap below.

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Last year at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, USAID committed to partnering with countries to reduce, avoid, or sequester at least six billion metric tons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. (Preventing six billion metric tons of GHG emissions is the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off roads for a decade, or roughly the amount of GHG emissions the United States emits each year). After making the commitment, USAID then codified it as one of its six ambitious goals in the Agency-wide 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. 

• 11/15/2022
• Claire Hubert

Did you miss the Climatelinks June newsletter? We’ve got you covered.

• 07/26/2022
• Sophie Schrader

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide our hu­mani­ta­ri­an and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different – by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-agency response.

• 07/21/2022
• Alex Lane

The USAID Climate Team, anticipating many questions from Missions and implementing partners, collaborated with Climatelinks to offer a series of three webinars introducing the strategy and offering examples of how some Missions—Mexico, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), and Morocco—are already implementing it.

• 05/24/2022
• Christine Chumbler

Improving energy efficiency is an integral but often-overlooked part of low-emission development (LED) strategies that can help countries reach their climate targets while meeting growing demands for energy.

• 05/05/2021
• Andrew Fang, Michael McNeil, Katie Koerper

When women are able to fully participate and lead in the workforce, we know that businesses prosper. Research shows that gender and ethnically diverse companies outperform industry standards by 25 percent.

• 03/08/2021
• Corinne Hart, Hayley Samu

When the government of India set a goal of deploying 175 gigawatts of renewable power by 2022, they understood that changes to their power system's operations were needed to achieve that level of renewable power on the grid. India decided to work with USAID and the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop a comprehensive grid integration study identifying operational pathways that would enable India to efficiently meet its renewable energy target.

• 02/20/2020
• Isabel McCan

With the climate changing in fast and uncertain ways, getting the right information for infrastructure design is becoming more challenging. USAID spends over a billion dollars a year building infrastructure across our humanitarian assistance and development portfolios, so it’s important that the Agency get it right. Infrastructure matters to international development. How the world grows, advances, and develops is (literally) built on a foundation of infrastructure.

• 02/03/2020
• John Pasch

The USAID-NREL Partnership developed a suite of resources within the Grid Integration Toolkit that provides information about the role that battery energy storage systems (BESS) play in integrating variable renewable energy, such as wind and solar, into large-scale power systems.

• 10/17/2019
• Isabel McCan

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their resources at the intersection of energy efficiency, emissions reductions, air pollution and related health issues in urban areas.

• 06/18/2018
• Katherine Cunningham, Joyce-Lynn Njinga

Climatelinks is focusing on clean energy and energy efficiency in urban areas this month. We would like to hear from you!

• 05/16/2018
• Climatelinks