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A USAID/Colombia program that concluded in 2017 saved manufacturing facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to an assessment of the environmental benefits and cost savings associated with the project’s energy efficiency interventions.

• 02/08/2018
• Derina Man, John Venezia, Kevin Kurkul

USAID’s Findings and Preliminary Lessons from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Peru looked at three countries facing challenges from climate change. In all three countries, climate change is disrupting communities’ long-held understandings of their environments.

• 01/30/2018
• Christine Chumbler

• 01/17/2018

On September 28, USAID/El Salvador signed agreements with three commercial banks in El Salvador to offer more than $53 million in partial loan portfolio guarantees under USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) program.

• 11/06/2017
• Santiago Enriquez, Eric Hyman

USAID supported an assessment of the energy and greenhouse gas emission benefits associated with USAID’s renewable energy development and energy efficient street lighting efforts in El Salvador using the online Clean Energy Emission Reduction (CLEER) Tool.

• 11/03/2017
• Derina Man, Kevin Kurkul, John Venezia

The direct consequences of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations are fairly well established, but there is emerging evidence that the indirect consequences are just as insidious, detrimental and widespread.

• 10/19/2017
• Climatelinks

An Analysis of Nine USAID Agricultural Development Projects Shows How Low-emission Practices Contribute to Food Security and Mitigate Climate Change.

• 10/12/2017
• Julie Nash, Julianna White

USAID/Mexico supported an assessment of the energy and greenhouse gas emission benefits associated with pilot projects designed to reduce emissions in Mexico. The online CLEER Tool calculated clean energy benefits for these pilots, providing an easy way to estimate and track current and future energy benefits and emissions reductions from a wide range of clean energy activities. 

• 09/15/2017
• Derina Man, Kevin Kurkul, John Venezia

Working with Guatemala’s National Council for Protected Areas and other partners, SERVIR provided technical resources for satellite-based data products to monitor fires across Petén, where fire risk is projected to rise due to higher temperatures and longer dry spells.

• 07/18/2017
• Climatelinks

Two examples of infrastructure development demonstrate how investment in planning and engineering design, that is considerate of future climate conditions, can result in more resilient infrastructure outcomes.

• 06/15/2017
• Climatelinks

Owing to their geography and location, small island states are some of the most vulnerable countries. Barrels by the Bay has shown that even small efforts can be part of the solution.

• 05/15/2017
• Climatelinks

• 01/10/2017

“Climate work is practical, common-sense, good development,” said Carrie Thompson, deputy assistant administrator at the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

• 12/29/2016
• Graham Norwood

• 12/12/2016
• Evan Notman, Juliann Aukema

• 12/05/2016