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The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Delivering Climate Information Services in Africa

While public sector interest in climate information services (CIS) is concerned with resilience in the face of climate variability and change, the private sector is beginning to recognize that there is a growing market for climate services. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are helping to bridge gaps in public services around the globe. 
  • Fatema Rajabali, Robert O’Sullivan, Jeremy Usher
Indonesian coffee farmer stands in his field.
Blog Post

Share your Expertise: USAID’s Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition

Do you work on a project or activity that is increasing climate resilience or reducing carbon emissions while conserving biodiversity? Have you collaborated with colleagues across USAID to design a project or activity that has biodiversity outcomes and tackles development challenges across multiple programming areas?
  • Jennifer Kane, Catherine Wahlen
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Progress Toward Financing Urban Infrastructure—An Update on the C40 Cities Finance Facility

We’ve all heard the numbers – the global infrastructure investment needed to keep up with projected economic growth is severely lacking. In cities, where 54% of the world’s population now lives, it is estimated that US$4.1 to 4.3 trillion in urban infrastructure investments is needed. To make that infrastructure climate resilient and emission reducing, the estimate increases by 9-27%.
  • Climatelinks
A group of people gathers near a weather monitoring station.
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The Critical Role of the Private Sector in Weather and Climate Services

Improving access to and use of timely, accurate, and actionable weather and climate information is essential to building resilience to climate change and strengthening livelihoods across Africa. Collaborative partnerships between the public and private sectors can foster innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective approaches to weather and climate services systems.
  • Ali Blumenstock
Flooded village in Bangladesh
Blog Post

How USAID is Advancing the President’s PREPARE Climate Initiative

Droughts and floods, more intense storms, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels are devastating communities around the world, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. In response to the severe and urgent global climate crisis, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) supports developing countries and communities around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.
  • Tedi Rabold
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USAID Helps Bridge Local Financing Gaps for Solar Energy in West Africa

From October 2016 to March 2018, experts from the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) activity assessed the clean energy markets in eight West African countries and trained commercial banks interested in starting or scaling up clean energy lending on technologies and business models.
  • Edward Hoyt
Image of the 2022-2030 Climate Strategy document cover.
Document

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.
  • USAID
Document

CCRD Climber-Scientist Small Grants Program Factsheet

This factsheet explains the Climber-Scientist Small Grants program, which provides research opportunities to scientists and practitioners working in high mountain regions.

Research is focused on the impacts of climate change, interaction between highland and lowland communities, and ways to protect alpine ecosystems. It is part of the High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, which is an element of the USAID-funded Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) project.
Philippine indigenous women farmers planting upland rice
Blog Post

Top 5 Resources of 2021

In 2021, the Climatelinks community submitted over 160 resources on topics ranging from climate resilience in WASH and agriculture to environment and energy trends in Latin America and the Caribbean. Other notable documents included the 2020 Amazon Vision Report, an updated SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit, and more than 30 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Annexes on climate change. 
  • Stephan Hardeman
Mangrove clearing
Announcement

Mangrove Conservation versus Shrimp Aquaculture: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Half the world’s total mangrove deforestation since 2000 has taken place in Indonesia, where the main driver is conversion for shrimp ponds. A new cost-benefit analysis by the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity sheds light on the financial and economic value of mangrove conservation, including impacts on near-shore fishing and greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Dr. Eric Hyman
Woman looking at camera with wind turbines in background
Technical Report

USAID’s Climate Work: FY 2023 Review

In FY 2023 USAID supported its partners to: prevent 295 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, help communities in more than 60 countries build their resilience to climate impacts, conserve 82 million hectares of tropical rainforests, and mobilize $16.7 billion in outside public and private finance on top of USAID’s work.
Woman walks in a desert landscape holding jugs.
Blog Post

InterAction Listening Session Marks One Year Anniversary of USAID's Climate Strategy

In April 2022, USAID released their new Climate Strategy which will guide the Agency’s approach to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, improving overall operations, and helping partner countries build resilience to climate change through 2030. InterAction began refining and deepening our community’s understanding of climate change’s impacts, sharpening our recommendations for a comprehensive USG response.
  • Brian Aka and Claudia Sanchez de Lozada
Progress Toward Climate Resilience in Colombia - Spanish
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Avances hacia la resiliencia climática en Colombia

This document is the Spanish timeline for Colombia, highlighting the interdependent nature of the building blocks and how USAID’s investments complement government efforts to achieve their own key policy milestones.