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Improving energy efficiency is an integral but often-overlooked part of low-emission development (LED) strategies that can help countries reach their climate targets while meeting growing demands for energy.

• 05/05/2021
• Andrew Fang, Michael McNeil, Katie Koerper

The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. Climate change is not just a looming existential threat, it is currently threatening development progress and exacerbating global inequities; increasing humanitarian needs, food and water insecurity, and displacement; and contributing to conflict.

• 05/04/2021
• USAID

Monitoring forest loss remotely is needed for formulating policies and strategies to address deforestation.

• 04/29/2021
• Ankit Joshi

“With new and improved data-driven analyses capabilities and better, more frequent reporting accompanied by resonating public communication campaigns, local actors may be motivated — even compelled — to improve water resource management that can benefit all Filipinos.”

• 04/27/2021
• Russell Sticklor

The DDI Bureau is seeking to hire a Natural Resource Management Officer who will serve as a senior climate change and land advisor at the FSL-02 grade. This position is based in Washington, DC in the Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Division within the Natural Environment (NE) Branch of the Center for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure (EEI) in the Bureau of Development, Democracy, and Innovation. 

• 04/26/2021
• Climatelinks

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius demands a dramatically different power sector – one that helps reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 7.6 percent globally each year from 2020 to 2030.

• 04/23/2021
• Sophia Peters, Michaela Palmer

Brazil is one of the six countries of the Amazon basin covered by SERVIR-Amazonia, including Colombia, Peru, Guyana, Ecuador, Suriname.

• 04/23/2021
• SERVIR Global

Earth Day 2021’s theme is “Restore Our Earth,” focusing on the central role that nature can play in combating the climate crisis. It’s a timely theme: on Earth Day, President Biden is hosting a Leaders’ Summit on Climate to increase global ambition to address the climate crisis and galvanize efforts to keep the vital goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach.

• 04/22/2021

In Indonesia’s Papua Province, a province on the eastern edge of the Indonesian archipelago that shares an island with the nation of Papua New Guinea, reducing deforestation is the most effective way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

• 04/22/2021
• Christine Chumbler

The convergence of tropical atmospheric currents generate a steady wind across Northern Colombia. This persistent climatic phenomenon provides the potential for a very reliable and expansive source of wind-generated power.

• 04/22/2021
• Tedi Rabold

USAID has been supporting countries in low-emissions long-term planning through its Transparency and Long-term Strategies (T-LTS) project.

• 04/21/2021
• Derina Man

Climate mitigation and support for the Government of South Africa’s green growth agenda were central to the conception of USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Program (SA-LED).

• 04/21/2021
• Peter Nash

The USAID Mission in Cambodia (USAID/Cambodia) plays a major role in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, through its financial support to local and international non-governmental organizations.

• 04/21/2021
• Sothira Seng , Dan Whyner , Sreyleak Leng

South Asia, home to a quarter of the world’s population and a major energy consumer with some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, is also home to some of the greatest climate disasters.

• 04/20/2021
• Ipshita Nandi Banerjee

Libya has vast energy resources. With electricity prices heavily subsidized by the national government and people experiencing daily power outages, public awareness of the need to conserve energy is limited.

• 04/20/2021
• Valerie Gwinner