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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

The Climate Information Prize (CIP) in Kenya is an effort to help bridge the gap between the large amount of climate information available from meteorological services and people who may use it to cope with climate shocks and stressors.

• 05/08/2018
• Lars Otto Naess, Nicki Spence, Lorenza Geronimo

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

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their work related to the integral role weather and climate information and services play in building the resilience of people and communities to climate change impacts.

• 04/27/2018
• Katherine Cunningham, Joyce-Lynn Njinga

• 04/26/2018
• Jenny Frankel-Reed

How can countries ensure that the successes of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation initiatives are adequately captured and reflected in national GHG inventories?

• 04/19/2018
• Marian Van Pelt

Climatelinks is focusing on weather and climate information and services this month and we would like to hear from you!

• 04/13/2018
• Climatelinks

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific are facing a future of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of weather events and ocean acidification. A new paper in the Resources to Advance LEDS Implementation (RALI) Series explores these climate challenges and the progress of SIDS.

• 04/13/2018
• Robert Kay, Charlotte Cherry

In the Dagana district of Senegal, Moustapha Aminata walks out to his rice paddies and looks to the sky for signs of rain. In 2009, floods wiped out his crop, but now dry years seem to come around more frequently than ever and Moustapha worries about how he and his family will withstand another year of low yields.

• 04/02/2018
• Dr. Tufa Dinku

We’ve all heard the numbers – the global infrastructure investment needed to keep up with projected economic growth is severely lacking. In cities, where 54% of the world’s population now lives, it is estimated that US$4.1 to 4.3 trillion in urban infrastructure investments is needed. To make that infrastructure climate resilient and emission reducing, the estimate increases by 9-27%.

• 03/30/2018
• Climatelinks