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At the June Adaptation Community Meeting, four climate change risk specialists from leading development organizations came together to discuss how they are thinking about climate risk and what processes they are putting in place to improve resilience.

• 07/20/2018
• Climatelinks

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

“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

The American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, December 10-14, in Washington DC has invited abstracts for a session that will examine how global change research can support national security decision-making.

• 07/03/2018
• Climatelinks

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their resources at the intersection of energy efficiency, emissions reductions, air pollution and related health issues in urban areas.

• 06/18/2018
• Katherine Cunningham, Joyce-Lynn Njinga

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

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

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