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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

In a significant move towards advancing Jordan's decarbonization initiatives, USAID's Energy Sector Support Activity created the Decarbonization Finance Directory.

• 02/22/2024
• Daniel Potash, Anne Canavati, Ameya Sampath

This blog is part of the USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action series. It expands on a winning photo from the 2023 Climatelinks Photo Contest from Kosovo.

• 02/15/2024
• Sarah Bumbarger

USAID is committed to supporting a just and inclusive transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. 

• 12/05/2023
• Kasandra Richardson

USAID is putting the infrastructure in place to phase out fossil fuels and improve energy efficiency while expanding energy access in hard-to-reach places. Read on to learn how the Agency promotes clean energy and improved climate and development outcomes across the world.

• 06/27/2023
• USAID

Last year at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, USAID committed to partnering with countries to reduce, avoid, or sequester at least six billion metric tons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. (Preventing six billion metric tons of GHG emissions is the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off roads for a decade, or roughly the amount of GHG emissions the United States emits each year). After making the commitment, USAID then codified it as one of its six ambitious goals in the Agency-wide 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. 

• 11/15/2022
• Claire Hubert

As energy demand increases in Ghana, its government is seeking to diversify the country's energy mix and find innovative ways to integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) into its national grid. USAID and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are promoting the development of new hydro-solar resources.

• 09/27/2022
• Emily Klos

Bangladesh submitted its updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the UNFCCC in August 2021 and is committed to reduce GHG emissions in the power, industrial and transportation sectors.

• 08/09/2022
• Dr A. Mondal, M. Haider, R. Chowdhury

Over the last five years, the Government of Nepal has made large strides in modernizing its electricity sector.

• 04/06/2022
• Sri Sekar

Industrial energy efficiency in India is the key to progress.

• 03/15/2022
• Amit Singh Parihar

After many years of partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) national laboratories on various energy sector studies and programs, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) mission in India realized an opportunity to coalesce these initiatives into an interlaboratory consortium.

• 12/02/2021
• Isabel McCan

There is growing momentum in the international community to ramp up climate finance for mitigation and adaptation actions. Undoubtedly, a focus on climate change adaptation in the developing world must be a priority for the financing.

• 09/08/2021
• Mohamed Bakarr

Improving energy efficiency is an integral but often-overlooked part of low-emission development (LED) strategies that can help countries reach their climate targets while meeting growing demands for energy.

• 05/05/2021
• Andrew Fang, Michael McNeil, Katie Koerper

Kelo Uchendu, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Nigeria, founded the Gray2Green movement in 2018. Grey2Green raises awareness about climate justice and works on student-led engineering projects to innovate new sustainable technology.

• 02/04/2021
• Ruby Rorty

My passion for entrepreneurship started when I was pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Clothing Textiles at Egerton University. I started a shop to sell soft furnishing for fabrics such as bed covers, curtains, baby sets etc. This business however did not go as smooth as I had earlier imagined.

• 01/14/2021
• Stella Sigana