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Many domestic commercial banks in Central America have been reluctant to provide loans for clean energy companies and users due to high perceived risks and a limited understanding of relevant technologies, business models, and investment viability.

• 02/05/2019
• Santiago Enriquez, Eric Hyman

Our team selected a variety of handy tools to put in an end-of-year “toolbox” for the Climatelinks community.

• 11/26/2018
• Isabela Barriga

To better understand how to design and implement sustainable climate information services models within African NMHSs, USAID funded the Assessing Sustainability and Effectiveness of Climate Information Services in Africa (Sustainable CIS) project.

• 09/21/2018
• Dr. Chris Lennard

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

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

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

• 04/26/2018
• Jenny Frankel-Reed

Gender equality and women’s empowerment – particularly when it comes to ensuring that women and men have equal opportunities in accessing, benefiting from and participating in environmental decision-making – are essential for effective conservation and sustainable development.   

• 03/22/2018
• Lorena Aguilar, Corinne Hart

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their PPP-related research, tools, blogs, knowledge portals and other resources, which you can find here!

• 02/28/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

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

• 02/08/2018
• Climatelinks

Do you have online resources, tools, videos, blogs or events you would like to share with the Climatelinks community that explore these questions?

• 01/09/2018
• Isabela Barriga

A new webinar is now available providing an overview and update on the CLEER Tool, a web-based platform for calculating and tracking GHG emission reductions, as well as energy generated or saved, from a wide range of clean energy actions.

• 12/06/2017
• John Venezia

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

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

Globalwaters.org is a global knowledge resource for USAID staff, implementing partners and the broader community of development practitioners working in the water sector.

• 08/17/2017
• Climatelinks