Climate Change Adaptation at USAID: Learning from Experience

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Written By Cate Urban

USAID’s Global Climate Change Initiative assists countries as they develop in ways that reduce emissions while building resilience to climate change impacts.

Three Pillars

Adaptation: Building capacity in vulnerable countries and communities to prepare for, reduce, or cope with negative impacts of climate change.
Clean Energy: Reducing GHG emissions by spurring deployment of clean energy, energy efficiency, low carbon technologies, clean transport, energy sector reforms.
Sustainable Landscapes: Reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and degradation, increasing sequestration, including building capacity to measure, report, and verify emissions reductions (REDD+)

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Climate Change Adaptation at USAID: Learning from Experience — Source: USAID
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Cate Urban

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Climate Change Adaptation at USAID: Learning from Experience

USAID’s Global Climate Change Initiative assists countries as they develop in ways that reduce emissions while building resilience to climate change impacts.

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