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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 Climate Strategy 2022-2030

This new Strategy takes a “whole-of-Agency” approach that calls on all corners of USAID to play a part in the response. USAID will work on the ground with partner governments and local actors to set the global trajectory toward a vision of a resilient, prosperous, and equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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USAID's Robust Targets to Advance President Biden's PREPARE Climate Initiative

At COP-26, USAID announced an ambitious set of targets to advance the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). PREPARE will support developing countries and communities in vulnerable situations around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change. These impacts are already being felt, and USAID brings significant experience to bear on supporting the climate resilience of developing countries.
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USAID's 2021 Climate Readiness Plan

USAID’s Climate Readiness Plan outlines actions USAID will implement across the Agency’s operations management functions and programs to adapt to the effects of the changing climate.
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Climate Change, Risk, and Resilience in WASH and Agriculture Projects

This brief introduces CIS, and describes how CIS can be used by resilience food security activities (RFSAs) and partners. The brief lists resources for CIS, and shows where more information can be found. It also introduces national, regional and global CIS providers and partners.
  • PRO-WASH, SCALE
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Climate Change Adaptation in the Maldives

Through its Climate Change Adaptation activity, USAID will build the capacity of the private sector, civil society, and government to respond and adapt to climate change in ways that contribute to sustained, inclusive, market-based growth. It will help identify and scale up innovative solutions to climate-related challenges, strengthen governance to address climate-related risks, and improve access to high-quality information for decision-making to reduce vulnerability to climate change.
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Integrating Climate Risk in Long-Term Planning

In late 2020, the USAID Transparency and Long-Term Strategies (T-LTS) project conducted a four-part online training for practitioners on developing mid-century, low-carbon strategies that consider climate risks and include climate adaptation strategies
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Fire Prevention through Village Fund

Yanto Adam, Gohong Village Chief, Kahayan Hilir subdistrict, Pulang Pisau district, still remembers clearly the 2015 fire disaster that devastated his village.
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The Blue Guide to Coastal Resilience: Protecting Coastal Communities through Nature-based Solutions

This Blue Guide is primarily designed for practitioners, particularly those in the humanitarian sector supporting coastal communities. This includes technical experts and project managers who will be able to follow the various stages in this guide, who can integrate NbS into DRR planning, implement such plans, and scale up good practices. To use this guide, expertise in ecology and prior knowledge of NbS is not necessary.
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Evaluation of Climate Risk Management at USAID

This report presents results from the performance evaluation of climate risk management (CRM) at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The evaluation found that CRM integration into the program cycle should be viewed as a longer-term process of institutional change.
  • USAID