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The USAID-funded Learning Agenda on Climate Services in sub-Saharan Africa—together with partners from the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at the University of Cape Town—convened 65 participants in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of the fifth international climate change adaptation conference.

• 07/19/2018
• Climatelinks

USAID took stock of climate risk management (CRM) in programming across all sectors to better understand the Agency’s experience with CRM to better support the practice.

• 07/19/2018
• Rebecca Nicodemus, Anna McGinn

“We know that Haiti is an extremely vulnerable country for the impacts of climate change,” says Jesse Leggoe, Acting Deputy Director in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Office, “Having Hurricane Matthew hit during our design process just re-emphasized that for everyone.”

• 07/11/2018
• Climatelinks

Climate information services (CIS) can empower smallholder farmers to take actions that reduce losses, improve food security and increase income by providing critical weather and climate information related to agriculture.

• 07/10/2018
• Helen Rosko, Cathy Vaughan

Under the USAID-funded Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI), a Mercy Corps-led consortium is piloting a participatory systems mapping methodology to investigate how climate information reaches smallholder farmers.

• 06/18/2018
• Kelly Kurz, Kristin Lambert

Since 2013, USAID’s Municipal Energy Reform Project has helped Ukraine make major strides toward energy reform.

• 06/15/2018
• Vira Illiash

The USAID-funded program Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT), is identifying countries most affected by climate vulnerability, fragility and gender inequality.

• 06/15/2018
• Climatelinks

Increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy demand are cornerstones of strategies to increase economic competitiveness while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• 06/11/2018
• Climatelinks

Developed jointly with the Vietnam Ministry of Construction and officially approved in May 2017, GGAP aims to strengthen the foundation for low-emissions energy systems in Vietnam’s construction sector.

• 05/31/2018
• Climatelinks

Until recently, the health sector was largely missing from the climate change arena – but this is changing.

• 05/24/2018
• Climatelinks

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is commonly seen as a barrier to expanding electricity access in a cost-effective manner, but recent analyses conducted for Bangladesh suggest otherwise.

• 05/11/2018
• Climatelinks

Increasingly, ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches are gaining traction as a complement or substitute for hard infrastructure to help buffer communities against climate change while also delivering development co-benefits.

• 05/03/2018
• Hailey Keuck

How exactly does SERVIR connect space to village? These examples highlight some of the cutting-edge tools that support SERVIR’s work on land cover, agriculture and flood forecasting.

• 05/02/2018
• Devrin Weiss

Since its launch in 2005, SERVIR has cultivated a global network of research collaborations linking U.S.-based institutions and technology companies with four regional SERVIR hubs.

• 05/02/2018
• Katherine Casey

From October 2016 to March 2018, experts from the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) activity assessed the clean energy markets in eight West African countries and trained commercial banks interested in starting or scaling up clean energy lending on technologies and business models.

• 05/01/2018
• Edward Hoyt