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As we enter another important year for global efforts to address the climate crisis, Climatelinks is excited to announce our 2024 themes.

• 01/09/2024
• Climatelinks

USAID uses evidence from the latest research on behavior change to inform human-centered climate solutions across sectors—including in water security, sanitation, and hygiene.

• 10/26/2023
• Alison Howard

In April 2022, USAID released their new Climate Strategy which will guide the Agency’s approach to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, improving overall operations, and helping partner countries build resilience to climate change through 2030. InterAction began refining and deepening our community’s understanding of climate change’s impacts, sharpening our recommendations for a comprehensive USG response.

• 08/31/2023
• Brian Aka and Claudia Sanchez de Lozada

When the Climate Strategy launched, Climatelinks built a hub as an easy way for climate and development professionals to find Climate Strategy resources. In this blog you will find a compilation of some of the most popular resources on the Climatelinks Climate Strategy hub.

• 04/21/2023
• Climatelinks

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

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

This blog features Climatelinks best videos of 2022.

• 12/14/2022
• Maggie Allegar

Addressing climate change and conserving forests go hand-in-hand, but what does that look like in practice? This blog outlines six approaches for using the power of nature to address the climate crisis.

• 11/16/2022
• Neeha Mian

Droughts and floods, more intense storms, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels are devastating communities around the world, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. In response to the severe and urgent global climate crisis, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) supports developing countries and communities around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.

• 11/08/2022
• Tedi Rabold

In the fight against climate change, the private sector plays a strategic role in addressing development challenges. This blog describes how USAID partners with the private sector to consult, strategize, align, collaborate, and implement technological, financial, or strategic solutions to conservation, adaptation, and mitigation challenges.

• 10/25/2022
• Tedi Rabold

Climate adaptation strategies should make more concerted efforts to incorporate the multi-dimensional nature of women’s empowerment, as this research shows the important role of women’s decision-making in strengthening agricultural resilience to climate change.

• 09/28/2022
• Elizabeth Bryan, Alex De Pinto, Greg Seymour, Prapti Bhandary, Francesca Edralin

This blog is part 1 in the Climate-Smart Agriculture and USAID 2022-2030 Climate Strategy Webinar recap blog series.

• 08/24/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Climate threats to food safety are less publicized and less well understood, but remain just as serious.

• 07/28/2022
• Matthew Thielker

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report illustrated that climate change already has a widespread impact, that those impacts are intensifying, and that we, as a global community, need to act quickly to avoid the most severe consequences.

• 07/14/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

Climate change is projected to have substantial and widespread impacts on food production, food security and the livelihoods of the poor in low-income countries.

• 06/14/2022
• Agrilinks, Avni Mishra, Els Lecoutere, Ranjitha Puskur, Jawoo Koo, Carlo Azzarri

Since its inception in 2019, the Climatelinks photo gallery has grown to host more than 400 images of climate and development across 54 countries. Through community submissions and annual photo contests, the photo gallery has matured into a resource for the entire Climatelinks community. Images found in the photo gallery are available for viewing, download, and use by the Climatelinks community (with proper credit).

• 12/07/2021
• Stephan Hardeman