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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

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

Did you miss the ‘USAID at COP27’ newsletter? We’ve got you covered with the recap below.

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Locally led development and private-sector engagement are two of the five foundational principles which will be incorporated into all of USAID’s planning and activities under its 2022-2030 Climate Strategy.

• 12/13/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Did you miss the Climatelinks September newsletter? We’ve got you covered. Please find a recap of the September 2022 ‘Private-Sector Engagement and PREPARE’ theme below. You won’t want to miss this short list of top programs, resources, and blogs from the month. Do you want to contribute to the Climatelinks community? Send us a resource, blog, or event.

• 10/13/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

• 09/13/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

• 08/23/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

• 07/26/2022
• Sophie Schrader

The USAID Climate Team, anticipating many questions from Missions and implementing partners, collaborated with Climatelinks to offer a series of three webinars introducing the strategy and offering examples of how some Missions—Mexico, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), and Morocco—are already implementing it.

• 05/24/2022
• Christine Chumbler

On Earth Day 2022, USAID officially launched its new 2022-2030 Climate Strategy.

• 04/22/2022
• Sophie Schrader

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

This is the final of three blogs examining the lessons and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for sustainable landscape programs.

• 02/12/2021
• Eric Haxthausen

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

Smallholder rubber plantations represent a threat and an opportunity for carbon stock and biodiversity in Indonesia. A threat because poor agriculture and forestry practices lead to overuse of pesticides and fertilizers, water and river pollution and deforestation; and an opportunity because smallholder rubber plots hold a much higher biodiversity and carbon stock than their most common alternative: palm oil monoculture.

• 08/28/2020
• USAID Green Invest Asia 

Hanzel Cubangbang first learned about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in college. It became his dream to one day see the campus and conduct the types of research he was studying firsthand.

• 10/11/2019
• Isabel McCan