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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

In Honduras, USAID seeks to promote renewable energy and environmental conservation and strengthen marginalized groups' participation in local and national governance.

• 02/29/2024
• Kristin Kelly Jangraw

USAID uses several approaches to increase climate finance, demonstrating the role of climate finance activities in international development.

• 02/08/2024
• Sashi Jayatileke

As of March 2023, USAID had mobilized more than $1 billion in private capital for development through INVEST, working in 81 countries across a wide range of sectors.

• 02/05/2024
• Sharon D’Onofrio, Kristin Kelly Jangraw

The following blogs offer insight into how USAID and its partners are mobilizing climate finance and provide examples of equitable climate finance investments. 

• 02/01/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

Climate change impacts differ across genders; so should approaches to climate finance.  

• 01/30/2024
• Anthony Flowe

Remarkably, within just one year CFDA has operated with exceptional speed, achieving multiple milestones.

• 01/11/2024
• Sashi Jayatileke

Mobilizing climate finance is one of the six targets in USAID’s Climate Strategy. For more information and tools related to climate finance, check out these resources. 

• 01/02/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

Climatelinks published nearly 20 blogs during COP28, but the insights and resources shared will be useful long after the conference ends.

• 12/14/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

Learn more about USAID’s work to help cities prepare for climate impacts and foster resilient urbanization.

• 12/06/2023
• Kasandra Richardson

USAID and global online retailer Amazon discuss how and why they have joined forces to address the massive gap in gender-equitable climate finance through the newly launched Climate Gender Equity Fund. Read the full Q&A here.

• 05/09/2023
• USAID

USAID has developed dozens of resources to aid climate and development practitioners in their work at the intersections of climate, gender, and social inclusion. Climatelinks is proud to host a variety of these resources, from technical reports and analyses to fact sheets. This blog compiles some recently added gender and social inclusion resources.

• 04/11/2023
• Ariel Schindler

USAID is advancing gender-responsive climate action by implementing evidence-based, high-impact programs in a range of sectors, including gender-equitable access to green jobs, land rights, natural resource management, and climate finance.

• 11/14/2022
• M. Mena

As part of the global effort to increase climate finance flows, USAID's 2022-2030 Climate Strategy sets a target of mobilizing $150 billion in climate finance by 2030 from public and private sources. To meet these climate targets and incentivize investment, USAID is integrating climate finance throughout Agency programming and establishing key activities and mechanisms that engage the private sector.

• 11/09/2022
• Sashi Jayatileke, Tedi Rabold

Through the Scaling Up Renewable Energy program (SURE), USAID assisted the Fund for Non-Conventional Energy and Energy Efficiency (FENOGE) to promote gender equality and female empowerment in the Colombian energy sector. Their new Gender and Diversity Policy systematically integrates diversity, inclusion, and gender equality principles and aims to promote female participation in the energy sector, reduce female poverty in the energy sector, and reduce gender-based violence.

• 11/09/2022
• Scarlett Piantini Gil