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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

Climatelinks published nearly 20 blogs during COP28, but the insights and resources shared will be useful long after the conference ends.

• 12/14/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

Energy access is critical for strengthening health systems in lower- and middle-income countries. Progress in maternal and child health, combating infectious diseases, and other health priorities also requires co-investment in clean, reliable energy.

• 01/05/2023
• Amanda V. Quintana, Jaime L. Jarvis, Joyce-Lynn (Lyly) Njinga

Check out some blogs that you might have missed from 2022.

• 12/27/2022
• Ariel Schindler

In 2022, the Climatelinks community submitted resources on topics ranging from a series of climate change videos to the recently released e-textbooks and online training modules. Explore the five most visited resources on Climatelinks this year.

• 12/22/2022
• Sophie Schrader

USAID is advancing gender-responsive climate action by implementing evidence-based, high-impact programs in a range of sectors, including gender-equitable access to green jobs, land rights, natural resource management, and climate finance.

• 11/14/2022
• M. Mena

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

With a presence in 100 countries and more than 10,000 staff globally, USAID has a unique and timely opportunity to help reshape the renewable energy ecosystem and promote the adoption of a circular economy approach to renewable energy, plastics, and other sectors – helping to shift the balance of natural resource use for all our stuff from one of waste and disposability to one of sustainability while providing and creating new economic opportunities.

• 10/24/2022
• Gillian Caldwell

This blog is the second part in an Editor’s Pick Series highlighting USAID’s work with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

• 04/19/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

As clean energy production accelerates, the annual need for critical metals could outpace reserves and result in potential supply chain disruptions, endangering the transition to a clean energy economy.

• 02/03/2022
• Amanda Valenta, Andrew Fang, Monica Raphita Simarmata

Climate change impacts different regions in different ways and, as such, requires tailored initiatives to meet local development needs. Every region will face challenges brought on by the climate crisis and will integrate programs and systems to adapt.

• 01/20/2022
• Sophie Schrader

In 2021, Climatelinks featured a wide array of USAID’s climate-related work through its blogs. The Climatelinks blog acts as a resource for the global Climatelinks community and serves as a storehouse for information in the form of lessons learned, success stories, newsletter recaps, and report summaries. 

• 12/28/2021
• Steve Hardeman

Over the course of 2021, the Climatelinks community contributed over 140 blogs on topics from youth climate action to a new wave of private investment for climate solutions.

• 12/09/2021
• Sophie Schrader

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius demands a dramatically different power sector – one that helps reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 7.6 percent globally each year from 2020 to 2030.

• 04/23/2021
• Sophia Peters, Michaela Palmer