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USAID’s youth-centered Puentes Project in Guatemala has incorporated sustainable agriculture and clean energy training into its education and entrepreneurship programs.

• 06/18/2024
• Rebeca Frohmader

As one of the world’s largest biodiversity conservation funders, USAID is working to advance win-win solutions for climate and biodiversity.

• 03/23/2022
• Kelvin Gorospe

Timber mining not only contributes to forest degradation but also to climate change.

• 11/29/2023
• Claudia Romero

Climatelinks has a new design and updated content – just in time for the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord. The site has been revamped to better meet the needs of the USAID, its climate and development partners, and the climate community around the world. 

• 02/17/2021
• Climatelinks

In low- and middle-income countries, persisting gender discrimination and harmful gender norms mean adolescent girls living in poverty are often the most vulnerable to the least visible impacts of climate change. This includes disruptions to their education, increasing their time poverty, and increasing their risk of early and forced child marriage.

• 01/28/2021
• Dr. Christina Kwauk

Government of Bangladesh inventory experts recently participated in USAID-organized focus group discussions to share practical knowledge and skills, including how to use the US EPA Template Workbook.

• 01/31/2018
• Joshua Forgotson

USAID’s RALI project described the benefits of a robust GHG inventory in a recent white paper, shining a light on three publicly available tools that demonstrably build capacity for improved emission inventories.

• 08/16/2017
• Joshua Forgotson, Pamela Cookson, Marian Van Pelt

The USAID Resources to Advance LEDS Implementation (RALI) Project has teamed up with the NDC Partnership Support Unit on the development of a new online navigator tool to help countries identify tools and methods to help achieve their climate commitments.

• 05/04/2017
• Greg Carlock, Derina Man

The new RE Explorer is a user-friendly tool that addresses these needs by using spatiotemporal renewable energy data to visualize, execute, and support analysis of renewable energy potential under various user-defined scenarios.

• 02/22/2017
• Climatelinks

New research in Mali highlights a promising opportunity for action on climate change adaptation: local government development planning.

• 01/24/2017
• Climatelinks

The USAID Water Efficiency and Conservation Activity empowers young leaders to use their innovative solutions and unwavering dedication to tackle the pressing challenge of water scarcity.

• 06/27/2024
• Nour Zabalaw, Heba Ababneh

The following blogs offer insight into how USAID and its partners are mobilizing climate finance and provide examples of equitable climate finance investments. 

• 02/01/2024
• Jamie Schoshinski

Last year at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, USAID committed to partnering with countries to reduce, avoid, or sequester at least six billion metric tons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. (Preventing six billion metric tons of GHG emissions is the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off roads for a decade, or roughly the amount of GHG emissions the United States emits each year). After making the commitment, USAID then codified it as one of its six ambitious goals in the Agency-wide 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. 

• 11/15/2022
• Claire Hubert