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To mitigate air pollution in developing countries, we need to examine its causes in local contexts and support solutions that are affordable, sustainable, and reliable.

• 09/12/2024
• Jane Clifford

This blog is part of the USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action series. It expands on a 2023 Climatelinks Photo Contest winner from Kenya.

• 09/12/2024
• Alec Jacobson

The USAID Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE) program aims to support Senegal's public water service companies in modernizing their rural borehole pumping systems.

• 09/05/2024
• Gamou Fall

These resources highlight how USAID programs support a just and inclusive transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient energy systems around the world.

• 09/03/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

The Government of Indonesia is transitioning towards low-carbon energy resources while modernizing its electric power systems, as evidenced by its 192 Megawatt peak Cirata floating solar plant.

• 07/23/2024
• Syofvi Roekman

Blue Circle Energy, a grantee of the USAID Climate Finance for Development Accelerator’s Caribbean Climate Investment Program, is working with young people to help Barbados reach its energy and climate targets. 

• 06/24/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

SURE interviewed trainees on November 11, 2022, and recently caught up with Antonio José Ortega Alvarado as he prepares to graduate from the program. Antonio, age 24, is from Uribia Guajira.

• 06/20/2024
• Janice M. Laurente

SURE interviewed trainees on November 11, 2022, and recently caught up with Rosalía Florez Palmar as she prepares to graduate from the program.

• 06/04/2024
• Janice M. Laurente

Tajikistan recently joined the Gobal Methane Pledge with support from activities implemented by the International Food and Policy Research Institute under USAID’s flagship Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative program.

• 05/28/2024
• Nandita Srivastava, Suresh Babu

Our 2024 Photo Contest theme is In Focus: Communities Confronting Climate Change. Submissions will be accepted beginning June 5, 2024 until July 26, 2024.

• 05/20/2024
• Climatelinks

USAID’s Vietnam Urban Energy Security (VUES) project supports the Government of Vietnam’s transition away from fossil fuels by improving energy policies and regulations, mobilizing public and private investments, and increasing the adoption of innovative energy solutions.

• 05/07/2024
• Georgia Iordanescu

In Honduras, USAID seeks to promote renewable energy and environmental conservation and strengthen marginalized groups' participation in local and national governance.

• 02/29/2024
• Kristin Kelly Jangraw

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

In a significant move towards advancing Jordan's decarbonization initiatives, USAID's Energy Sector Support Activity created the Decarbonization Finance Directory.

• 02/22/2024
• Daniel Potash, Anne Canavati, Ameya Sampath

To protect the systems they manage, utilities and grid operators first need to know which hazards could harm them.

• 01/11/2024
• Dean Gluckman, Rodrigo Chaparro