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The Power of Nature
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Our shared planet is our home and most valuable resource. Around the world, healthy forests and ecosystems provide food, jobs, clean water, and are a buffer against storm surges and landslides while storing carbon.
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Energy Catalysts: Indigenous Youth Lead Renewables Transition in Colombia
In Colombia, 3 young people from La Guajira’s Indigenous Wayuu community set out to be trained in energy transition, so they can gain the skills and knowledge to work in clean energy in their own communities.
Superfoods for a Super Forest
How USAID helps local businesses flourish while restoring the Amazon rainforest.
Still Standing
How USAID’s disaster-resilient construction in Pakistan is keeping children in school amidst devastating floods.
Capture the Carbon: Conserving Forests to Sustain Local Communities
In Colombia, Laddie’s community is one of 19 Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities USAID supports with the development of REDD+ projects, which generate carbon credits sold in the carbon market.
Powering the Philippines with Renewable Energy Auctions
How USAID is helping decrease emissions and increase energy security.
Shifting Gears
How USAID is improving the quality of air and life by introducing electric vehicles in Pakistan.
Five Ways USAID is Preparing for Hurricane Season
As another Atlantic hurricane season approaches, we are reminded that it takes just one bad storm to wreak havoc, kill and injure thousands, and inflict billions of dollars in damage.
Power is Power: Lighting up Central Liberia
USAID, through the U.S. Government-funded Power Africa initiative, worked with the Liberia Electricity Cooperation (LEC) to construct power distribution lines in Gbarnga City in Liberia's Bong County.
Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition Through Auctions
View data on USAID-supported renewable energy auctions worldwide and learn how partner countries use auctions to achieve sustainable cost reductions, reduce emissions, and increase energy security.
Betting Big on Renewables
Meet Arman, an energy specialist from Kazakhstan. He wants to fight climate change and believes renewable energy is key to the solution. With USAID assistance, Kazakhstan met its renewable energy goal in 2020 and is now working toward 50 percent renewable energy by 2050.
A Flavorful Partnership
With support from USAID and McCormick, Malagasy vanilla farmers form cooperatives and harvest new opportunities. Sustainably grown vanilla has the potential to protect forests and their ability to mitigate climate change, while providing the farmers with much needed income.
How 5 Young African Leaders Are Addressing Climate Change
USAID supports Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) alumni as they tackle the world’s most pressing issues. USAID is working to elevate diverse local voices—including those of youth advocates for climate action—to empower often overlooked communities to be agents of change.
Harvesting the Bounty of the Sea
In the village of Babuyan, on the Philippine island of Palawan, fisherfolk are venturing into seaweed farming for a sustainable future. Seaweed is an effective natural way to absorb carbon emissions, and unlike trees, it does not compete with land needed for food production.
The Lady of Fires
When the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu were threatened by forest fires, firefighter Jessica Morón and her wildland firefighting team battled the flames to protect the historic sanctuary and its surrounding biodiversity, and combat climate change.