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A technical note by a Presidential Management Fellow for USAID’s Energy Division, Sarah Lawson, called “The Basics of Competition & Auctions for Renewable Energy,” explains how new procurement processes for renewable energy work and why they are changing the landscape.

• 11/24/2017
• Climatelinks

• 11/22/2017

USAID and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have partnered to transfer lessons from Texas state's expansion into wind energy to improve transmission planning by integrating renewable energy deployment and transmission system expansion in developing countries.

• 11/16/2017
• Climatelinks

At the October 19th Adaptation Community Meeting, Dr. Molly Hellmuth, the focal point on water for ICF’s Climate Adaptation and Resilience team, discussed climate risks to hydropower systems and demonstrated some tools that are available to manage those risks.

• 11/08/2017
• Hailey Keuck

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

Climatelinks is focusing on clean energy throughout November and we would like to hear from you!

• 11/02/2017
• Climatelinks

This month Climatelinks focused on the many elements of agriculture that touch on and are impacted by climate change. Explore below the many resources, blogs, knowledge portals and communities of practice related to this topic, shared with us by Climatelinks community members.

• 10/30/2017
• Climatelinks

Climate-smart agriculture must go beyond promoting static solutions to climate variability and change, since this does not prepare farmers and their systems to adapt as the climate continues to change.

• 10/30/2017
• Climatelinks

• 10/25/2017

In their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), 92 developing countries mentioned livestock-related emissions, and 48 of the 92 explicitly mentioned intentions to reduce emissions from livestock-related sources such as enteric fermentation, manure management and biogas, and grasslands and silvopastoral systems. But how do countries plan to document reduced emissions?

• 10/12/2017
• Julianna White

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

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

Climatelinks is focusing on the nexus of agriculture and climate change throughout October. Through the Climatelinks blog and library, and via Twitter @climatelinks, we are sharing case studies, methods, tools and resources on this topic.

• 10/09/2017
• Climatelinks

A new paper by Michael Clark and David Tilman reviewed 164 published life cycle analyses of more than 90 foods to compare how different ways of growing food, and choices about which food to produce, affect five aspects of the environment: land use, fuel consumption, nutrient run-off, ecosystem acidification and GHG emissions.

• 10/05/2017
• Noel Gurwick, David Miller