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In 2017, an estimated 153 billion hours of work were lost due to extreme heat.

• 02/21/2020

As USAID transforms, cross-sector programming is more important than ever, and this is especially true for environment programming.

• 03/09/2020

In an effort to bolster developing countries' resilience to climate variability, public and private institutions have partnered to build Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD).

• 02/16/2018

Governments around the world have recognized the potentially devastating consequences of climate variability and change to economic development, livelihood security and natural resources conservation.

• 03/02/2020

• 01/01/2013

• 02/01/2013

This report discusses of some of the key drivers and considerations that policymakers and decision-makers face when deciding if and how to regulate electricity tariffs for micro-grids.

• 01/09/2020

• 01/01/2013

The ESC region’s GHG emissions represent less than 2.42 percent of global emissions. However, per capita emissions in the region are higher than the world average.

More than half the world’s population—3.5 billion people—already lives in cities.

• 09/23/2016

The Asia-Pacific region has some of the highest absolute numbers of people dependent on forests for significant portions of their livelihoods, and also stands to suffer some of the greatest expected economic and loss of human life as a result of adverse climate change impacts.

• 07/31/2016

The March Adaptation Community Meeting focused on global efforts to better understand and respond to increasingly frequent and severe heat waves and their impacts on human health.

• 04/01/2019

• 01/01/2014

Competition for natural resources, including water, land, and forests, have long been recognized as a source of contention, and sometimes even violence.

• 09/26/2019

Joining efforts to improve resilience for the Aral Sea ecosystem and its human communities.

• 11/30/2021