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Social and behavior change (SBC), an approach long championed in global health and biodiversity conservation programming, may be a critical part of enhancing climate resilience.

• 11/19/2018
• Veronique Lee

To assist the Government of Malawi and its citizens, USAID/Malawi designed the Protecting Ecosystems and Restoring Forests in Malawi (PERFORM) project.

• 10/17/2018
• Ramzy Kanaan, Gina Althoff

The new global Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Project was one of the first activities to undergo USAID’s CRM process. The resulting extensive climate risk assessment highlighted the need to include strategies, interventions and assessments to build climate resilience both into program implementation and among beneficiaries in activity design.

• 08/07/2018
• Christine Chumbler, Elaine Gray

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

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 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

USAID supported research in Mozambique aims to understand the link between observed climate trends and disease outbreaks as well as offer recommendations on how this knowledge could be used to streamline future responses around malaria and diarrheal disease.

• 10/06/2017
• Hailey Keuck

By providing innovative health services to communities around Gunung Palung, a national park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Dr. Kinari Webb and her colleagues have seen rapid and dramatic improvements in public health indicators while reducing the number of families involved in illegal logging by 90 percent.

• 09/07/2017
• Climatelinks

Through climate risk management — a structured process to assess and address risks and identify opportunities — USAID can improve the impact and sustainability of its efforts, safeguarding billions of dollars in investments.

• 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

Explore these resources, blogs, and events covering topics at the intersection of climate change and health, shared with us by Climatelinks community members. 

• 04/27/2017
• Climatelinks

Facing an unusually heavy rainy season, an ongoing cholera outbreak and growing concern about the spread of malaria and other diseases, the Government of Mozambique is turning to USAID for strategies to address climate and weather risks in health sector decisions.

• 04/24/2017
• Climatelinks

To help decision makers target resources to areas of Sub-Saharan Africa where they are needed most, USAID is supporting a hotspots mapping initiative to identify places where the potential for weather variability and climate change pose the gravest threat to human health.

• 04/19/2017
• Climatelinks

A new report, Risk Expands but Opportunity Awaits: Emerging Evidence on Climate Change and Health in Africa by USAID’s Adaptation, Thought Leadership, and Assessments (ATLAS) project captures health risks associated with climate and weather variability.

• 04/13/2017
• Climatelinks