Women farmers uprooting the rice seedlings for transplantation in Siraha District of Nepal

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Launched in 2015, Climatelinks is a global knowledge portal for USAID staff, implementing partners, and the broader community working at the intersection of climate change and international development. The portal curates and archives technical guidance and knowledge related to USAID’s work to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We aim for this portal to improve climate change and development programming, amplifying the impact of USAID’s investments into the future. We hope Climatelinks becomes a place for development practitioners to help identify and refine practices, and to inform USAID’s technical direction in areas of information gaps.

Featured Resources

Climate Basics Course

A self-guided, one-hour course on why climate is relevant to development.

Climate Risk Management Hub

Tools for systematically assessing, addressing, and adaptively managing climate risks.

GHG Emissions Fact Sheets

These fact sheets can help identify climate change mitigation opportunities.

GCC Standard Indicator Handbook

The FY24 standard indicators for climate change and development.
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USAID Renewable Energy Auctions Toolkit: Why Choose Auctions?

Renewable energy (RE) auctions allow policymakers to scale clean energy at competitive prices by assisting in price discovery and reducing windfall profits for power producers. Compared to negotiated procurement, RE auctions allow for a faster project execution and increase the transparency in the selection process. Unlike administrative feed-in schemes, RE auctions respond quickly to changing market prices.
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USAID Renewable Energy Auctions Toolkit: Stages of Renewable Energy Auction Design

Following 800 renewable energy (RE) auctions in 61 countries, some common stages of design and implementation that auction programs move through as they mature can be observed. These 800 include 50 in China since 2003, 63 in Brazil since 2006, and 257 in India since its first in 2012. Although the number of auctions in each country varies, and not all countries move through all stages, there are notable patterns.
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Webinar Recording

USAID Webinar: Catalyzing Finance for Climate Action

This event featured two innovative cases examples of donor support for climate finance- the Climate Resilience and Adaptation Finance and Technology Transfer Facility (CRAFT) and the BioCarbon Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (IFSL).
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Working With Nature to Protect People

This flagship report from the IFRC and WWF highlights how the power of nature to protect people is being overlooked. It shows how nature-based solutions can reduce the likelihood of climate change and weather-related events occurring. And how they can save lives by preventing exposure to these hazards and supporting vulnerable communities to adapt to and withstand the dangers of a warming world.
  • IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, WWF – World Wide Fund For Nature (Formerly World Wildlife Fund)
Factsheet

Kenya Climate Change Fact Sheet

Climate risks pose serious threats to Kenya’s sustainable development goals and development gains. With the largest economy in East Africa and a population of 54 million, Kenya serves as the region’s financial, trade, and communications hub. The country’s economy is largely dependent on rainfed agriculture, tourism and natural resources, sectors that are susceptible to climate variability and change and extreme weather events.
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Spreadsheet

USAID SUPER Climate Finance Investment Review Tool

Energy sector entities can use this Tool to evaluate the feasibility of a project for climate financing, receive recommendations for how to better position the project for climate financing, and understand optimal climate financing options for the project.
Webinar Recording

Resilient Future: Climate Financing Strategies for Family Planning Programs

This video, developed under the USAID-funded Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health (PACE) project, is a how-to guide for advocates of family planning, reproductive health, and gender equality on how to integrate their work in climate adaptation and resilience programs and finance streams.
  • Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
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The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action (Spanish Version)

Alianza para los Paisajes es una transformadora iniciativa público-privada implementada por Rainforest Alliance, CDP, Clarmondial, Conservación Internacional y USAID para reducir la deforestación producida por una agricultura insostenible, contribuir a los objetivos climáticos y de biodiversidad globales, además de impulsar la inversión y el desarrollo inclusivo en algunos de los paisajes tropicales más importantes del mundo.
Climatescope
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Climatescope

Climatescope seeks to bring quantitative rigor to the basic question of what makes a country attractive for clean energy investment, development, and deployment. It provides a snapshot of where clean energy policy and finance (particularly conditions of local financing) stand today, and a guide to where clean energy can go tomorrow.