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Bridging the Gap to Improve Integration of Climate Information and Health Programming

Changes in the frequency, location, and severity of climate impacts are placing more people at risk from health-related hazards such as reduced air quality, extreme heat, exposure to extreme weather events, and shifts in vector borne diseases. The World Health Organization predicts that between 2030-2050, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths annually worldwide due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress.
  • Fernanda Zermoglio
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Sustainable Forest Management Requires Sustainable Forest Monitoring

Many countries have committed to establishing national forest monitoring and measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems, but lack the technical capacity to achieve their goals. As the science of forest monitoring and MRV advances, these countries face challenges identifying and implementing cost-effective tools and methods that suit their long-term needs.
  • Moses Jackson
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Changing Energy Practices Improves Women’s Health and Builds Climate Resilience in Nepal

Using firewood more efficiently and promoting alternative energy in Nepal improves women’s health, changes their lives, and reduces climate vulnerability. Building on a foundation of work at the intersection between environment and health in Nepal, the second phase of the USAID’s Hariyo Ban (Green Forests) Program is scaling up approaches to reduce climate change vulnerability and increase community resilience.
  • Judy Oglethorpe, Shant Raj Jnawali
Cows look into a camera in front of verdant jungle backdrop.
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Gathering Data from Trees and Cows

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, member countries must submit national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories, estimating how much carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases they are producing each year.
  • Christine Chumbler
A rainstorm moves over the Mara River, Serengeti, Tanzania.
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To Improve Water Management, Start Local

Rivers are the world’s main source of clean drinking water, and their economic and environmental value are fundamental to the health of people and ecosystems. However, river basins face interrelated challenges — population growth, industrialization, urbanization, land use changes (including deforestation and land degradation), and changes in water quantity and quality.
  • Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio