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Como a USAID ajuda empresas locais a florescer enquanto restaura a floresta amazônica.

• 04/05/2024
• Joey DeMarco

The Amazon rainforest is home to thousands of unique species, serves as a critical carbon sink, and regulates rainfall and weather patterns across South America and beyond.

• 04/05/2024
• Joey DeMarco

Fact sheets from active and recently closed USAID natural climate solutions programs are now available.

• 12/08/2023
• Lindsey Larsen

In this interview, Ayda Garzon, head of Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia, talks about the drivers of deforestation.

• 11/17/2023
• Land for Prosperity

Deforestation threatens biodiversity and has negative health and economic impacts on communities. Nearly half of Mexico is covered by forests, which host 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Making Mexico a critical net carbon sink for the world.

• 01/12/2023
• Tedi Rabold

Did you miss the ‘USAID at COP27’ newsletter? We’ve got you covered with the recap below.

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Addressing climate change and conserving forests go hand-in-hand, but what does that look like in practice? This blog outlines six approaches for using the power of nature to address the climate crisis.

• 11/16/2022
• Neeha Mian

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Climatelinks photo contest––our biggest contest yet. We received more than 200 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 45 countries.

• 11/01/2022
• Climatelinks

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are one of the five foundational principles of USAID’s new 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. On August 30, 2022, USAID held a webinar to explore the ways the Agency is developing and applying NbS to the challenges of climate change.

• 10/31/2022
• Christine Chumbler

The USAID Climate Team, anticipating many questions from Missions and implementing partners, collaborated with Climatelinks to offer a series of three webinars introducing the strategy and offering examples of how some Missions—Mexico, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), and Morocco—are already implementing it.

• 05/24/2022
• Christine Chumbler

Do you have great photos of changemakers in climate and development? Do you want to promote your work on Climatelinks? Now is your chance!

• 05/17/2022
• Climatelinks

The Climate Strategy recognizes nature as critical to climate solutions and integrates nature-based solutions throughout.

• 05/03/2022
• USAID

USAID’s Páramos and Forests Activity and the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program are helping these women and their communities manage and protect their lands.

• 04/26/2022
• Helena Andrade, Mario González, Luis Fernando Jara

The Natural Resource Officer will support implementation of the forthcoming Agency Climate Strategy, an Administration priority, which has set ambitious targets the Agency must meet on land-based mitigation. The Natural Resource Officer will be a senior-level Agency technical expert supporting implementation of the Climate Strategy through leadership and technical expertise in NCS.

• 04/01/2022
• USAID

At the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November 2021, leaders from nearly 200 countries came together to establish ambitious plans of action to adapt to and mitigate the threat of climate change

• 03/29/2022
• Maura Barry Boyle