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An estimated 45,000 people hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy attended United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27). Among these delegations was a group of Indigenous women leaders working to build capacities and train emerging Indigenous women leaders from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

• 03/07/2023
• International Union for Conservation of Nature

Along Cameroon’s equatorial coast, women are planting trees on degraded land, both in the humid terrestrial ecosystems, and the estuarine areas where mangroves grow. In some cases, they’re also gaining greater tenure security in the process.

• 03/05/2019
• CIFOR

These are a few of our favorite webinars from 2018.

• 12/12/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

The interconnectedness of life on Earth has never been more apparent, and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is using this perspective to explore how climate-sensitive health threats that impact food security and human well-being can be better predicted to help save lives.

• 08/23/2023
• Hannah Button

The Climate Adaptation Project seeks concept papers from qualified organizations in Sri Lanka to implement programs related to climate adaptation within the framework of the project’s objectives.

• 08/16/2022
• Climatelinks

This month, Climatelinks is featuring geospatial tools and analysis. When it comes to climate change, geospatial tools and analysis provide innovative methods of visualizing drivers, threats and impacts. Emerging trends can also be identified and studied through geospatial analysis, which in turn allows for more strategic positioning of resources.

• 05/10/2019
• Stephan Hardeman

In December 2015, 116 countries—75 from the developing world—committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the Paris...

• 06/14/2016

This month saw the release of a dire UN report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warning that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history. 

• 06/04/2019
• Agrilinks

This blog series features interviews with the winners of the 2020 Climatelinks Photo Contest. This photo, submitted on behalf of SERVIR West Africa, is available on the Climatelinks Photo Gallery.

• 03/03/2021
• Climatelinks

Synthia Ontita, Research and Project Management Associate of The Youth Cafe, discusses the importance of youth involvement in Africa’s sustainable development.

• 02/03/2021
• Kate Minden

Climate change poses a significant global threat to food security and nutrition, largely through its impacts on agricultural production.

• 09/24/2019
• Agrilinks Team

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report illustrated that climate change already has a widespread impact, that those impacts are intensifying, and that we, as a global community, need to act quickly to avoid the most severe consequences.

• 07/14/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

The meeting will publicly introduce the BIFAD Subcommittee on Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems.

• 08/24/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

This series features Women’s Land Rights Champions within USAID to learn more about their work. We’re pleased to share this interview with Corinne Hart, USAID’s Senior Gender Advisor for Energy, Environment, and Climate.

• 08/22/2023
• LandLinks

To strengthen communities' access to and management of water and pasture, USAID EKISIL—which means “peace” in the local language of Karamoja—initiated climate risk management (CRM) actions in the Abim, Kaabong, Kotido, and Moroto districts

• 10/13/2021
• Lorine Giangola, Leah Quin