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In two years of operations, USAID’s Climate Finance for Development Accelerator has mobilized $380.7 million of sustainable investment towards its goal and worked with partners to strengthen local ecosystems in over 60 countries.

• 11/21/2024
• Anne Spahr

As leaders gather in Azerbaijan for COP29, climate finance remains a priority conversation for governments, donors, and other stakeholders. Access to finance is a critical adaptation bottleneck across USAID partner countries in Africa.

• 11/21/2024
• Hannah Blair

The 2024 Climatelinks Photo Contest captured how communities across the globe are confronting climate change. We received over 300 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 45 countries.

• 10/29/2024
• Climatelinks

USAID and Prosper Africa, a presidential level national security initiative to increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and African countries recognize the potential of climate finance.

• 10/10/2024
• Kyla Grau, Alex Riabov

In early 2023, USAID/Pakistan set a goal to help facilitate the growth of the country’s own voluntary carbon market.

• 08/08/2024
• Carolanne Chanik

Food insecurity, extreme weather events, and water scarcity – all of which are made worse by climate change – increase the risk that women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals will be put in situations where their health is compromised.

• 08/06/2024
• Bama Athreya

With climate-related shocks and stresses increasing globally, economic losses could skyrocket without direct action to build climate resilience and invest in adaptation solutions.

• 07/16/2024
• Yasmine Alotaibi Williams

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

USAID launched the Climate Gender Equity Fund at COP27 to harness the power of public-private partnerships to close the gender-climate finance gap.

• 04/18/2024
• Corinne Hart

Did you miss the Climatelinks February newsletter? Here's a recap of the February ‘Climate Finance’ theme.

• 03/13/2024
• Climatelinks

At the IWA Water and Development Congress in December 2023, USAID’s WASH-FIN 2 activity co-convened a session on “Unlocking Climate Finance for Sanitation: The Role of Partnerships,” with the Kenya Water Sector Trust Fund.

• 03/04/2024
• Barbara Kazimbaya-Senkwe

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

C3F aims to encourage the flow of private sector capital into coastal resilience and blue carbon projects that contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation while benefiting local communities.

• 02/27/2024
• Chip Cunliffe

ATI developed the Climate Finance Innovation Toolbox to encourage the design and implementation of climate interventions.

• 02/23/2024
• Kigen Chelimo