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Over the last five years, the Government of Nepal has made large strides in modernizing its electricity sector.

• 04/06/2022
• Sri Sekar

USAID’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy program works with partner countries to advance a just and inclusive transition to clean energy

• 03/22/2022
• Sarah Lawson, Thomas Black, Janice M. Laurente

Industrial energy efficiency in India is the key to progress.

• 03/15/2022
• Amit Singh Parihar

The increasing threat of climate change highlights the importance of reusable, efficient energy sources and power grid resilience.

• 03/10/2022
• Melissa Trimble, USAID

To combat climate change, countries around the world are introducing national renewable energy development plans and carbon neutrality goals to overhaul their energy sectors.

• 03/09/2022
• RTI International, Candise Henry, Andrew "AJ" Kondash, Justin Baker, Christopher Wade, Benjamin Lord, George L. Van Houtven, Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, Brooke Shaw, Edwin Castellanos, Benjamin Leiva

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

The Government of Colombia, with the help of the USAID, has deployed energy auctions as a policy tool to reach climate targets, procure renewable energy at competitive prices, and ensure a more resilient energy supply for the country. 

• 01/13/2022
• Thomas Black, Jairo Gutierrez

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

After many years of partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) national laboratories on various energy sector studies and programs, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) mission in India realized an opportunity to coalesce these initiatives into an interlaboratory consortium.

• 12/02/2021
• Isabel McCan

Across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), approximately 60% of healthcare facilities are without electricity access. Without such access, healthcare providers face difficult and all-too-often dangerous challenges.

• 09/28/2021
• Amer Barghouth, Alice Brower, Justin Larson, Gordon Shaw

Electrifying health facilities can be accomplished through one of two approaches: connecting to a utility grid or on-site generation. The combination of these two technologies is much cleaner than using diesel generators, the preferred mode of rural clinics for providing off-grid power, and over time is less expensive. Renewable energy solutions such as solar also reduce future greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

• 09/23/2021
• Jacob Brunell, Julia Fonteles, Will Putzier, Nicolette Salazar

Despite the government’s deliberate initiatives to reach more people, Tanzania lags behind in its grid electricity connection targets. Only 24.5% of rural households in Tanzania have access to electricity. To help realize a future where all people enjoy the benefits of modern energy, Pact develops solutions and implements projects to expand access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy and the means to use energy productively.

• 09/16/2021
• Marianna Balampama, Valentina Socias

USAID has partnered with India to develop projects that support the achievement of these clean energy targets and overall decarbonization of the power sector.

• 09/14/2021
• Kate Minden