Blog

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their PPP-related research, tools, blogs, knowledge portals and other resources, which you can find here!

• 02/28/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

With collaboration between Winrock, the Government of Vietnam and the private sector, Vietnam’s payments for forest environmental services has the potential to be a model for other countries struggling to conserve forest areas — and a way to help people live more secure and prosperous lives.

• 02/28/2018
• Lauren Keller, Nga Dang

USAID is building mutually beneficial partnerships with private sector actors that leverage their respective expertise, assets, technologies, networks and resources to achieve greater development impact.

• 02/26/2018
• Climatelinks

Climatelinks is focusing on public private partnerships (PPPs) this month and we would like to hear from you!

• 02/08/2018
• Climatelinks

A USAID/Colombia program that concluded in 2017 saved manufacturing facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to an assessment of the environmental benefits and cost savings associated with the project’s energy efficiency interventions.

• 02/08/2018
• Derina Man, John Venezia, Kevin Kurkul

This month Climatelinks focused on the connections and complexities between climate change and conflict, environmental peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and effective environmental management and governance in fragile, vulnerable, and conflict-affected communities and regions.

• 01/31/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

Do you have online resources, tools, videos, blogs or events you would like to share with the Climatelinks community that explore these questions?

• 01/09/2018
• Isabela Barriga

Distributed solar, the use of small-scale solar distributed over a local area, can be a powerful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.

• 11/28/2017
• Alexandra Aznar

In their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), 92 developing countries mentioned livestock-related emissions, and 48 of the 92 explicitly mentioned intentions to reduce emissions from livestock-related sources such as enteric fermentation, manure management and biogas, and grasslands and silvopastoral systems. But how do countries plan to document reduced emissions?

• 10/12/2017
• Julianna White

An Analysis of Nine USAID Agricultural Development Projects Shows How Low-emission Practices Contribute to Food Security and Mitigate Climate Change.

• 10/12/2017
• Julie Nash, Julianna White

A new paper by Michael Clark and David Tilman reviewed 164 published life cycle analyses of more than 90 foods to compare how different ways of growing food, and choices about which food to produce, affect five aspects of the environment: land use, fuel consumption, nutrient run-off, ecosystem acidification and GHG emissions.

• 10/05/2017
• Noel Gurwick, David Miller

The Commodities and Forests Agenda 2020 report, launched September 19 by the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 and World Economic Forum, lays out 10 priority areas that company executives, policy-makers and civil society leaders should focus on to accelerate progress in addressing commodity-driven deforestation.

• 09/22/2017
• Climatelinks

Globalwaters.org is a global knowledge resource for USAID staff, implementing partners and the broader community of development practitioners working in the water sector.

• 08/17/2017
• Climatelinks

Want to problem-solve on climate change? The MIT Climate CoLab, an online crowdsourcing platform of nearly 90,000 members, launches seven new climate contests.

• 07/12/2017
• Climatelinks