With climate change a known driver of gender-based violence, we must ensure the growing support for climate action includes services at all levels to safeguard the rights of women and girls. Ellen Bomasang shares how local stakeholders can help.
Communities are best positioned to identify and create data-driven plans to address their own climate challenges, but they may not know where to begin. Vesna Petrin and Carolyn Townsend explain how a climate action plan offers a framework to develop solutions.
“Low-carbon, climate-resilient economies are imperative for the future, as is providing quality health care and financial well-being,” said Chief Climate Officer Eric Reading of our new alliance with USAID/Power Africa and private sector partners. Through HETA, 10,000 health facilities will have lighting, refrigeration, and internet powered by renewable energy.
Building on a decade-long partnership, a new $7 million, three-year contract will enable Abt to support EPA in its role as a lead partner in the Global Methane Initiative to reduce emissions.
Our team on the USAID Mongolia Energy Governance Activity aims to achieve clean energy goals while building energy resilience across the country, including boosting innovation, creating jobs, and reducing pollution.
What were our most read climate and environment items in 2022? Catch up with all the news stories and good reads of the year, curated by you!
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On the Edge: How Climate Affects Community Health and Equity
January 18, 2023
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Don’t miss this upcoming webinar with featured experts including:
Heather Joseph, MPH, LCDR, U.S. Public Health Service, Climate and Health Program, Division of Environmental Health Science and PracticeCenters for Disease Control & Prevention
Crystal Tulley-Cordova, Ph.D., MWR, Principal Hydrologist in the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources - Water Management Branch
Sacoby Wilson, Ph.D., Director, Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health and Professor, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health at the University of Maryland
Cutting methane emissions is the fastest and most effective opportunity to slow the rate of global warming. We explored 16 methane abatement solutions in the energy, agriculture, and waste sectors that have the potential to reduce 20 percent of annual methane emissions by 2050.
Methane’s disproportionate contribution to global warming means reductions in its emissions can provide outsized benefits over the next two decades. See how we’re helping countries calculate and realize the economic, health, and equity benefits of methane mitigation.
