USAID is investing in a learning agenda on climate services, recognizing that there have been limited climate services investments in sub-Saharan Africa and limited objective evidence regarding their effectiveness or the socio-economic circumstances that constrain their use.
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and the Mailman School of Public Health, both of Columbia University, hosted the Health and Climate Colloquium 2016 to help build a global community of health practitioners and policymakers that can use climate information as a means to support health delivery and improved outcomes in the context of a changing climate.
“Climate work is practical, common-sense, good development,” said Carrie Thompson, deputy assistant administrator at the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
