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Como a USAID ajuda empresas locais a florescer enquanto restaura a floresta amazônica.

• 04/05/2024
• Joey DeMarco

The Amazon rainforest is home to thousands of unique species, serves as a critical carbon sink, and regulates rainfall and weather patterns across South America and beyond.

• 04/05/2024
• Joey DeMarco

Fact sheets from active and recently closed USAID natural climate solutions programs are now available.

• 12/08/2023
• Lindsey Larsen

In this interview, Ayda Garzon, head of Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia, talks about the drivers of deforestation.

• 11/17/2023
• Land for Prosperity

A USAID project in Uganda is helping smallholder farmers boost their resilience to an increasingly unpredictable climate by using a market systems approach that addresses obstacles to adopting CSA practices.

• 10/05/2023
• Dorothy Najjingo

Several student projects around the world were recognized as winners of the 2022 USAID Science for Development Awards. The projects were in the fields of agriculture and food security, climate and environmental protection, global health, and working in crisis and conflict.

• 07/24/2023
• USAID

Our 2023 Photo Contest theme is USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action: Confronting the Climate Crisis Across Sectors. We are looking for submissions that show the breadth of issues, impacts, and solutions to climate change across 13 categories. Submissions will be open starting July 11, 2023.

• 06/26/2023
• Climatelinks

Senegalese youth are repairing degraded mangrove forests. In the process, they are empowering fishing communities to safeguard their own livelihoods ─ and fight climate change.

• 06/20/2023
• Winrock International

When the Climate Strategy launched, Climatelinks built a hub as an easy way for climate and development professionals to find Climate Strategy resources. In this blog you will find a compilation of some of the most popular resources on the Climatelinks Climate Strategy hub.

• 04/21/2023
• Climatelinks

Burkina Faso and Niger face twin humanitarian and climate crises. Policy makers, farmers and community leaders are collaborating to solve them, supported by a USAID activity implemented by Winrock.

• 02/06/2023
• Winrock International

Deforestation threatens biodiversity and has negative health and economic impacts on communities. Nearly half of Mexico is covered by forests, which host 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Making Mexico a critical net carbon sink for the world.

• 01/12/2023
• Tedi Rabold

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

• 12/15/2022
• Sophie Schrader

Addressing climate change and conserving forests go hand-in-hand, but what does that look like in practice? This blog outlines six approaches for using the power of nature to address the climate crisis.

• 11/16/2022
• Neeha Mian

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

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are one of the five foundational principles of USAID’s new 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. On August 30, 2022, USAID held a webinar to explore the ways the Agency is developing and applying NbS to the challenges of climate change.

• 10/31/2022
• Christine Chumbler