Sixteen Big Bet Climate Fellows from Latin America show the Global South is not just a hotspot for climate change challenges, but a powerhouse for innovative solutions.
The Indigenous communities that favor isolation are critical custodians of biodiversity and guardians against the encroaching tide of climate change in the Amazon rainforest.
A collaborative effort is underway to fuse Indigenous ancient wisdom with Western medical practices and create a more powerful public health system in the Amazon rainforest.
Data collection, digitization, and analysis in far-flung locations means public health interventions are based on fact, not opinion -- critical as climate change challenges health systems.
Good news is on the way for Kewinal, Bolivia, high in the Andes Mountains, whose residents have been pleading for electricity to support schools, health care, and livelihoods.
The Clinton Health Access Initiative is leading the fight against malaria in a remote Honduran region by creating data systems that help decisionmakers target resources and can serve as an early warning systems before outbreaks spread.
Grantee FUNDAEC is helping fight climate change and food insecurity by supporting farmers in Colombia’s Norte del Cauca region as they heal a soil damaged by monoculture farming and overuse of chemicals.
Work is underway, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and GEAPP and overseen by the Inter-American Development Bank, to bring electricity to a remote community in the Andean Mountains and other rural locations.