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Climate Change

Helping countries and communities predict and prepare for climate shocks and stressors can minimize losses, reduce vulnerabilities and build adaptive capacities to respond to these impacts, while safeguarding development gains. 

Climate Change Adaptation

Climate-related shocks and stressors are increasing in frequency and intensity around the globe, acting as a threat multiplier. Recurrent droughts, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and sea levels, and more intense storms can create new risks and exacerbate existing social, economic and environmental pressures like urbanization, land use change, and environmental degradation. Weather and climate can have profound impacts across sectors and undermine current and future progress towards development goals, such as food and water security, improved health, biodiversity, and economic growth.

Climate adaptation efforts can support resilience-building by anticipating and preparing for, both the current and projected changes in weather and climate. Climate adaptation enables people, communities and systems to better manage climate and disaster risk, helping efforts to reduce poverty and foster inclusive growth.

Approach

Addressing these challenges for more effective resilience programming through adaptation efforts requires: 

  • Adding a climate-lens to development efforts, by improving the availability, quality and use of weather and climate information available to decision-makers in support of early action
  • Mainstreaming adaptation measures into governance, planning and budgeting so resilience can be increased democratically and equitably
  • Piloting and disseminating risk-reducing management practices for climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, health, and water
  • Mobilizing finance for adaptation measures from multiple sources

Climate variability and change is a critical risk across the areas where we work.  USAID supports countries and communities to build their capacity to anticipate and prepare for current and projected changes in weather and climate patterns.

Please visit ClimateLinks.org for additional information and content on USAID's climate change investments.

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Youth Engagement in Agricultural Value Chains Across Feed the Future

24 Jun 2022 - Feed the Future Leveraging Economic Opportunities Activity

As global youth populations and unemployment swell to unprecedented levels, it is comforting to imagine the development of a stable, secure and diversified rural economy powered by youth, with trade and services...

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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022

31 May 2022 - United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

"Our World at Risk: Transforming Governance for a Resilient Future"

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Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Finance (DRF)

23 May 2022 - World Bank Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program, Financial Protection Forum

Understand the difficult trade-offs governments make following disaster, gaining key insights into a range of innovative disaster risk finance (DRF) projects across the globe.

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2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance

28 Apr 2022 - Asian Development Bank

In total, the MDBs committed over $66 million USD to climate finance in 2020, split between mitigation finance and adaptation finance. 

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