Climate Strategy Year 1 Review
Climate Change Cate Urban Climate Change Cate Urban

Climate Strategy Year 1 Review

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.

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USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy 2012­-2016
Agriculture, Climate Change Cate Urban Agriculture, Climate Change Cate Urban

USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy 2012­-2016

USAID’s work on climate change fits into a larger domestic and international policy context and is guided by Administration policy as developed in the President’s Global Development Policy, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, USAID Forward, and the GCCI. Additionally, USAID’s Policy Framework 2011­2015 defines the following as one of seven Core Development Objectives for the Agency: Reduce Climate Change Impacts and Promote Low Emissions Growth. USAID has a long history of programming in sectors relevant to climate change and will draw lessons learned from this history to shape efforts under this strategy. The goal of USAID’s 2012-­2015 Climate Change and Development Strategy is to enable countries to accelerate their transition to climate resilient low emission sustainable economic development.

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