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Renewable energy technologies — including hydro, solar, wind and geothermal — account for the energy market’s fastest growing sector. Global renewable energy employs 9.8 million people, an 11 percent increase from 2015.

• 03/07/2019
• Climatelinks

Many countries in Southeast Asia have set ambitious targets for transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, including improved management of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses.

• 02/28/2019
• Mikell O’Mealy, Charlotte Mack-Heller, Eric Hyman

This is the second blog in a two-part series detailing the Climate Finance Readiness Program (CF Ready), a program implemented by GIZ that receives joint support from USAID and the Ministry for Environment of the Czech Republic on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). 

• 02/27/2019
• Regina Bernhard, Johannes Schroeten, Jonathan Cook

This is the first blog in a two-part series detailing the Climate Finance Readiness Program (CF Ready), a program implemented by GIZ that receives joint support from USAID and the Ministry for Environment of the Czech Republic on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

• 02/26/2019
• Regina Bernhard, Johannes Schroeten, Matthew Ogonowski

Many domestic commercial banks in Central America have been reluctant to provide loans for clean energy companies and users due to high perceived risks and a limited understanding of relevant technologies, business models, and investment viability.

• 02/05/2019
• Santiago Enriquez, Eric Hyman

Energy opportunities, and other value chain upgrades, could potentially impact women, both for good and for bad.

• 12/10/2018
• Lydia Mbevi

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released a report on how the addition of renewable energy could affect power system operations in the Philippines.

• 11/30/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Our team selected a variety of handy tools to put in an end-of-year “toolbox” for the Climatelinks community.

• 11/26/2018
• Isabela Barriga

To help encourage private investment in this monumental task, NREL has supported the Power Africa Beyond the Grid Program by helping build an enabling environment for bankable, microgrid investments.

• 11/20/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This blog features some of our favorite videos that were added to the website in 2018.

• 11/20/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

Colombia will host its first renewable energy auction in 2019 after more than a year of coordination with NREL and USAID.

• 11/07/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

To better understand how to design and implement sustainable climate information services models within African NMHSs, USAID funded the Assessing Sustainability and Effectiveness of Climate Information Services in Africa (Sustainable CIS) project.

• 09/21/2018
• Dr. Chris Lennard

From nearly any vantage point in Gbamu Gbamu, one can look upward to see newly installed utility poles and wires.

• 07/24/2018
• Chris Warren

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their resources at the intersection of energy efficiency, emissions reductions, air pollution and related health issues in urban areas.

• 06/18/2018
• Katherine Cunningham, Joyce-Lynn Njinga

Increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy demand are cornerstones of strategies to increase economic competitiveness while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• 06/11/2018
• Climatelinks