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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

To ensure a just energy transition for the Indigenous Wayuu people, USAID partnered with Colombia’s National Training Service to provide young people in Wayuu communities the skills needed to enter the labor market and become entrepreneurs in the region’s new renewable energy economy.

• 11/01/2022
• Sandra Garavito

In the fight against climate change, the private sector plays a strategic role in addressing development challenges. This blog describes how USAID partners with the private sector to consult, strategize, align, collaborate, and implement technological, financial, or strategic solutions to conservation, adaptation, and mitigation challenges.

• 10/25/2022
• Tedi Rabold

With a presence in 100 countries and more than 10,000 staff globally, USAID has a unique and timely opportunity to help reshape the renewable energy ecosystem and promote the adoption of a circular economy approach to renewable energy, plastics, and other sectors – helping to shift the balance of natural resource use for all our stuff from one of waste and disposability to one of sustainability while providing and creating new economic opportunities.

• 10/24/2022
• Gillian Caldwell

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

The Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge (WE4F) announced a call for innovations in the water-energy-food nexus.

• 09/06/2022
• Katie Bailey

This position is located within the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Office of Regional Sustainable Development, Environment and Energy Team (LAC/RSD/ENVE). LAC/RSD serves as the principal source of region-specific technical assistance in the areas of democracy, governance, human rights, violence prevention, health, nutrition, education, workforce development, economic growth, agriculture, environment, and energy.

• 08/29/2022
• USAID

Did you miss the Climatelinks July newsletter? We’ve got you covered.

• 08/23/2022
• Sophie Schrader

The potential for solar-powered irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa is high, as demonstrated by research conducted by ILSSI partner, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 

• 08/16/2022
• Agrilinks, Nicole Lefore

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

Working on the ground with partner governments and local actors, USAID aims to achieve a resilient, prosperous, and equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. 

• 08/01/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Did you miss the Climatelinks June newsletter? We’ve got you covered.

• 07/26/2022
• Sophie Schrader

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide our hu­mani­ta­ri­an and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different – by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-agency response.

• 07/21/2022
• Alex Lane

Transforming systems will require approaches that seek to fundamentally change relations, structures, and systems that sustain and perpetuate climate change.

• 06/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

As Europe’s energy crisis deepens and global climate change impacts intensify, finding new and efficient ways to promote and invest in clean, renewable energy is critical.

• 06/02/2022
• Sarah Bumbarger