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Mobilizing climate finance is one of the six targets in USAID’s Climate Strategy. For more information and tools related to climate finance, check out these resources. 

• 01/02/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

This blog is the second part in an Editor’s Pick Series highlighting USAID’s regional approaches to climate and development. The first part of the series featured Climatelinks blogs that reflect these efforts, and this second part features resources and projects with a regional focus.

• 02/09/2022
• Sophie Schrader

To enable scaling of climate programs, development assistance organizations can help partner countries leverage new sources of financing, including institutional investors, impact investors, and international and domestic capital markets. However, new approaches are necessary to achieve impacts on a much larger scale.

• 07/29/2020
• Eric Hyman

How can programs encourage and enable local commercial banks to lend to companies supplying solar home systems for off-grid customers? Power Africa supported the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity’s training and technical assistance on this topic. In the process,

• 06/11/2020
• Power Africa

Understanding the economic impacts of renewable energy development is critical to reaching scale in the clean energy transition.

• 10/02/2019
• Sadie Cox, Isabel McCan

Because of the wide array of threats faced by modern energy systems, power sector resilience is increasingly important. It is critical for policymakers, planners, and system operators to safeguard their power systems from these threats by proactively planning for future needs and investing in resilient power systems.

• 09/03/2019
• Sadie Cox, Isabel McCan

Gender equality and women’s empowerment – particularly when it comes to ensuring that women and men have equal opportunities in accessing, benefiting from and participating in environmental decision-making – are essential for effective conservation and sustainable development.   

• 03/22/2018
• Lorena Aguilar, Corinne Hart

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their PPP-related research, tools, blogs, knowledge portals and other resources, which you can find here!

• 02/28/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

Do you have online resources, tools, videos, blogs or events you would like to share with the Climatelinks community that explore these questions?

• 01/09/2018
• Isabela Barriga

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.

• 12/06/2017
• John Venezia