Climate Strategy Year 1 Review

USAID’s Climate Strategy, launched in April 2022, is anchored in equitable and ambitious actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including from our own operations, and help partner countries adapt to climate impacts and build resilience to climate change. The Strategy guides our work through 2030 through an unprecedented “whole-of-Agency” approach, with all parts of USAID playing a part in our response. It also guides USAID’s work with other U.S. Government agencies, complementing and supporting related U.S. Government strategic frameworks.

Over the past year, USAID has launched a wide variety of initiatives, partnerships, and internal and interagency processes to implement the Strategy and set the foundation for achieving the goals over the eight years of the Strategy timeline.

This review includes a snapshot of our work over the past year across the thematic areas of forests, adaptation, energy, finance, equity, support to partner countries, and how we are doing our part to reform USAID’s own operations to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. The examples illustrate how the Strategy is taking form as part of our ongoing work to address climate change, and how we are integrating climate considerations and priorities into our broader development and humanitarian assistance efforts.

Source: USAID
Year: 2023