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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

Here in Nepal, more than 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away from Houston, the worst monsoon season in years is also inundating villages outside the capital. Extreme flooding has killed more than 1,400 people and impacted 41 million people across South Asia, and heavy rains have also claimed lives in Sierra Leone, China, Indonesia and Niger.

• 12/07/2017
• Arivudai Nambi Appadurai

Under the USAID Learning Agenda on Climate Services in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI) is looking at the user end of climate information to build a knowledge base of factors impacting the uptake and use of climate services.

• 12/04/2017
• Climatelinks

• 11/30/2017

Distributed solar, the use of small-scale solar distributed over a local area, can be a powerful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.

• 11/28/2017
• Alexandra Aznar

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

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

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

From 23 to 25 August, seventy participants from national meteorological services, international partners, as well as expert practitioners, policymakers, and researchers from agriculture, health, disaster risk reduction, water resource management, education and finance reviewed current tools and offered recommendations for new climate tools for drought risk management in Eastern Africa.

• 10/26/2017
• Climatelinks

Innovation and technology play important roles in addressing the need for climate-smart agriculture that can increase productivity and build resilient food systems. But how can we persuade governments and the private sector to invest in these climate-smart agricultural technologies?

• 10/20/2017
• Liuben Chipev, Shannon Smith