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Social and behavior change communication campaigns are a tool that can help advance and sustain climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

• 10/12/2023
• Krystle Corpuz

While forests and other ecosystems could help reduce one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, currently only about 3 percent of climate finance is invested in forest ecosystems. Southeast Asian forests have been shrinking faster than forests anywhere else in the world so it is critical for this region to balance economic growth, forest protection, and climate change mitigation efforts.

• 08/15/2023
• Suphasuk (Bird) Pradubsuk

In July, Climatelinks explored the important health and climate impacts of air pollution. As the world’s largest environmental health risk, air pollution contributes to approximately 6.7 million premature deaths each year. This is a significant development challenge, as low and middle income countries are at the highest risk for the greatest health burdens from poor air quality.

• 08/24/2021
• Climatelinks

Climate change worsens familiar challenges to water and sanitation services, including limited access and poor infrastructure. Innovative approaches, such as games to inform sanitation enterprise development, have the potential to catalyze local solutions for sanitation.

• 11/01/2019
• Jesse Shapiro, Liz Jordan

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