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This year’s Earth Day theme, Protect Our Species, highlights the roles of all living things and the importance of protecting endangered and threatened species, such as coral reefs, elephants, bees and other insects.

• 04/18/2019
• Isabela Barriga

A new land cover tool originally developed for southeast Asia is now being expanded globally. “Land cover mapping in the Lower Mekong has been challenging in the past, based primarily on outdated maps using different criteria,” said Dr. David Saah, Professor at the University of San Francisco and Managing Principal of the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG).

• 04/10/2019
• Devrin Weiss, Leah Kucera

Do you work on a project or activity that is increasing climate resilience or reducing carbon emissions while conserving biodiversity? Have you collaborated with colleagues across USAID to design a project or activity that has biodiversity outcomes and tackles development challenges across multiple programming areas?

• 04/04/2019
• Jennifer Kane, Catherine Wahlen

Face-to-face participatory processes, merging weather station observations with satellite data, and bridging the supply and demand side of climate information services (CIS) are some of the promising options for improving CIS.

• 02/12/2019
• Isabela Barriga

“Do your husbands object to your attending class?”

“No, no, no,” say the women.

“With a show of hands, how many of you are now earning money?”

Nearly everyone in class raises her hand.

• 02/05/2019
• Erin Hughes

NCA4 illustrates that U.S. investments in developing countries can build capacity and resilience, leading to climate risk reduction and improved livelihoods.

• 12/19/2018
• Isabela Barriga

SERVIR seeks to deliver near-real-time environmental data from Earth-orbiting satellites to data-scarce communities and scientists, and translate that data into tools, products, and services that can inform local decision-making.

• 12/14/2018
• USAID Water Team & Global Waters

Colombia will host its first renewable energy auction in 2019 after more than a year of coordination with NREL and USAID.

• 11/07/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

CREL, which worked its magic in four ecosystems — forest protected areas, wetlands and ecologically critical areas of Bangladesh — is closing after six successful years.

• 10/23/2018
• Winrock International

Climate risk management (CRM) ensures planning and programming is resilient to current and future climate impacts.

• 08/07/2018
• 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

Climatelinks is focusing on public private partnerships (PPPs) this month and we would like to hear from you!

• 02/08/2018
• Climatelinks

Water supply and sanitation systems have withstood three strong typhoons in facilities rebuilt after Haiyan, the typhoon that hit the Philippines in 2013, thanks to pro-active, community-oriented planning, good data and technically rigorous design. 

• 12/08/2017
• Erin Martin

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 Climatelinks and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) hosted a Twitter chat to explore the benefits of integrating biodiversity conservation and adaptation.

• 10/27/2017
• Katherine Cunningham

A recent assessment of non-climate funded USAID programs found that including climate change in solicitations resulted in actions to manage climate risk or address climate change during program implementation about half the time.

• 10/10/2017
• Climatelinks