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Editor's Pick: Mitigation Low-Emissions Agriculture Blogs

The following blogs highlight some of the ways USAID is working at the intersection of climate and agriculture and food systems.
  • Jamie Schoshinski
Picture in April 2023, shows a rice farm in Majin Gari, Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State (Long: 6.113753, Lat: 9.07204), Nigeria, by Salihu Idris (in the plot), was fertilized solely with biochar and compost, and no synthetic fertilizers, yielded 4.5 tons/ha, without any release of carbon emissions from the farming activity. The farmer, Salisu, is one of the participants of the USAID Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Activity implemented by Winrock International.

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Announcement

2023 Climatelinks Photo Contest

Our 2023 Photo Contest theme is USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action: Confronting the Climate Crisis Across Sectors. We are looking for submissions that show the breadth of issues, impacts, and solutions to climate change across 13 categories. Submissions will be open starting July 11, 2023.
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Reducing Risks of Renewable Energy Investments through Parametric Insurance

During this next event in a series of joint Climatelinks-CEADIR webinars, the author of this assessment will present findings and opportunities. Representatives of global reinsurance companies SwissRe and MunichRe will also join to discuss their experiences with parametric insurance for utility-scale VRE in Latin America and beyond.
  • Santiago Enriquez
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Climatelinks Website Redesign Showcases Climate Integration

Climate impacts social and economic development across sectors, in numerous ways. Each sector also has unique opportunities to contribute to climate solutions. USAID integrates climate change in development programming across a variety of technical fields.
  • Isabela Barriga
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Community Spotlights: Climate Change and Conflict Resources

This month Climatelinks focused on the connections and complexities between climate change and conflict, environmental peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and effective environmental management and governance in fragile, vulnerable, and conflict-affected communities and regions.
  • Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham
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CLEER Tool Webinar Recording Available Now

A new webinar is now available providing an overview and update on the CLEER Tool, a web-based platform for calculating and tracking GHG emission reductions, as well as energy generated or saved, from a wide range of clean energy actions.
  • John Venezia
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Community Spotlights: Clean Energy Resources

This month Climatelinks focused on policies, programs, finance facilities and partnerships contributing to the rapid scale-up up clean energy. Here are the many reports, case studies, blogs, tools, websites, videos and webinars that the Climatelinks community shared with us on the topic.
  • Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham
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Announcing the Climate Integration Support Facility

USAID awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement to support climate risk management. USAID operating units can release request for quotes for Purchase Orders immediately.
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Introducing Globalwaters.org!

Globalwaters.org is a global knowledge resource for USAID staff, implementing partners and the broader community of development practitioners working in the water sector.
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