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This edition is a tour of where CLEAN has been working: what's being requested, what we're delivering, and how it's helping UK programmes turn climate ambition into climate action. CLEAN, funded by FCDO, provides a globally accessible technical assistance service for UK officials working with Official Development Assistance. Advice comes at no cost to requesting teams, through a simple online request; whether you need a quick steer on a country question or more detailed input into programme design or ICF support. CLEAN is a direct route to high-quality climate, environment and nature expert.
Link- Global
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Water Resources Management
- Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
- Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
- Humanitarian
- Health
- Conflict
- Education
- International Climate Finance
- 2026
The CLEAN Helpdesk provides free-to-access technical assistance to UK government officials spending Official Development Assistance (ODA), with the aim of mainstreaming climate, environment and nature (CEN) considerations and International Climate Finance (ICF) into their programming and operations.
PDF- Global
- Lebanon
- Chad
- Iraq
- Diplomacy and policy influencing
- 2026
The CLEAN Helpdesk’s support helped strengthen the climate resilience dimension of the Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) programme.The JASS programme focuses on peacebuilding and conflict prevention interventions in the region. Read more about our work supporting FCDO and Mercy Corps and lessons learnt in this project.
PDF- Mali
- Niger
- Conflict
- Climate Finance
- Diplomacy and policy influencing
- 2026
The CLEAN Helpdesk was commissioned by the British Embassy in Beirut and supported by the Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC) and the Ministry of Energy and Water to update the National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) (2025-2030). The NREAP marks a key milestone in the ongoing partnership between Lebanon and the UK on a shared energy transition.
PDF- Lebanon
- Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
- 2026
This case study examines the Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) programme in Mali and Niger to explore whether climate action in the Sahel can generate broader peace and social benefits alongside enhanced resilience.
Link- Niger
- Mali
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Humanitarian
- Conflict
- 2026
This guidance note is developed to support humanitarian planning and response in relation to climate hazards in Ethiopia. It identifies reliable sources of information relating to a specific hazard, including information on the historical occurrence of the hazard, monitoring of current conditions, forecasts to help near- to medium-term planning in relation to the hazard, and longer-term climate projections that yield information on how the hazard might evolve. This note points users to the platforms deemed to be most relevant, accessible and useful.
PDF- Ethiopia
- Humanitarian
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- 2026
A major challenge for international donors is to spend scarce resources to best effect, especially as aid budgets are cut. Nowhere is this challenge sharper than in tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while promoting development. Governments and investors in the Global South face a balancing act: economic growth is needed to improve living standards, but it must come with ever fewer emissions.
Blog- Global
- Low Carbon Growth and Mitigation
- Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
- 2026
Cost-effective climate change mitigation in low- and middle-income countries: Rapid Umbrella Review
This rapid umbrella review (RUR) analyses evidence from scholarly and grey literature on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions applicable to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
PDF- Global
- Low Carbon Growth and Mitigation
- Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
- 2026
This note identifies sources of information on floods, providing guidance on how this information should, and should not, be used in humanitarian contexts. The sources described here have been identified from the set of 10 climate risk and early warning information platforms assessed as having the highest levels of user satisfaction in a June 2024 review by the REACH programme, managed by IMPACT, a Geneva-based NGO.
PDF- Ethiopia
- Humanitarian
- Shock response
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- 2026
This note identifies sources of information on heat extremes, providing guidance on how this information should, and should not, be used in humanitarian contexts. The sources described here have been identified from the set of 10 climate risk and early warning information platforms assessed as having the highest levels of user satisfaction.
PDF- Ethiopia
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Humanitarian
- 2026
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