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New Measures of Success for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Today there is no alignment among investors, governments, donors, and other stakeholders on how to quantify the benefits of A&R investments. This is holding back much-needed private-sector investment and limiting progress on the implementation of national climate plans. Today there is no alignment among investors, governments, donors, and other stakeholders on how to quantify the benefits of A&R investments. This is holding back much-needed private-sector investment and limiting progress on the implementation of national climate plans.
USAID Climate Ready: Adaptation and Finance for Impact
Following COP21 in December 2015—which also brought about the Paris Agreement— Conference attendees committed to addressing climate change using substantial financing through international donors and funds. As part of this movement, the USAID launched the USAID Climate Ready Project.
Operationalizing USAID’s Climate Strategy to Achieve Transformative Adaptation and Mitigation in Agricultural and Food Systems
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) 2023–2030 Climate Strategy (Climate Strategy) provides a bold and ambitious vision to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate change.
Helping the World Prepare: A Primer on U.S. International Adaptation and Resilience
The climate crisis is existential, and the impacts of climate change that are being felt around the world threaten to undermine development gains, exacerbate geopolitical tensions, accelerate the food security crisis, and result in greater instability and humanitarian need.
Report to Congress on Progress to Strengthen Disaster Resilience in the Caribbean Region
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) submits this report, pursuant to Section 7019(e) of Division K of P.L. 117-328, the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023, which incorporates by reference the requirements of House Report H. Report 117-401 on strengthening disaster resilience in the Caribbean region:
USAID Report to Congress on Programs in Forestry and the Conservation of Biodiversity during Fiscal Year 2020: Results and Funding
By conserving coral reefs and mangroves, improving forest management, and driving innovative technologies, USAID’s conservation activities reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon storage.
2021 Climate Readiness Plan
With this new Climate Readiness Plan (CRP), USAID is revitalizing its approach to climate change adaptation, resilience, and risk mitigation across the Agency’s programs and operations and is also committing to ambitious mitigation targets and new adaptation actions in alignment with Biden-Harris Administration priorities, multilateral climate objectives, and the newest climate science.
Key Lessons From Private Sector Engagement in the USAID Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience
Any partnership between a company, NGO or research institution can be fraught with misalignment of stated objectives, appetite for risk, and short- versus long-term thinking.
Climate Change and Conflict: An Annex to the USAID Climate-resilient Development Framework
This paper provides a set of guidelines for USAID and its partners to employ in planning, designing, implementing, and learning from programs where climate change and conflict have the potential to interact.
Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel: A Policy Brief on Findings From Niger and Burkina Faso
This document is part of a series of studies produced by the African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project that address adaptation to climate change in West Africa. Within the ARCC West Africa studies, this document falls in the subseries Climate Change and Conflict in West Africa. ARCC has also produced subseries on Climate Change and Water Resources in West Africa, Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in the Sahel, and Climate Change in Mali.
Climate Change and Conflict in West African Cities: A Policy Brief on Findings From Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana
To address the relative lack of research on climate-conflict linkages in large urban areas, USAID asked the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability (FESS) to conduct a case study on two major West African cities – Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana. Field research was carried out for the case study in June and August 2013, and this policy brief presents the findings on the central questions addressed by that investigation: Are the effects of climate change likely to lead to chaotic and conflictive scenarios in West African cities? If so, under what circumstances and over what time frame; and are there preventive actions that governments and donors should take?
Climate Change Adaptation at USAID
To strengthen development outcomes through direct climate change program investments and by integrating climate change throughout USAID programming, learning, policy dialogues, and internal operations.
Follow the Water: Emerging Issues of Climate Change and Conflict in Peru
This study explores how the effects of climate change on water quantity, quality, and access may be factoring into aspects of localized instability, fragility, and conflict in Peru. To help guide the methodological approach, FESS developed a seven-phase framework—the Climate Change and Conflict Assessment Framework (CCCAF). The framework emphasizes one of the main conclusions of recent conflict analysis: conflict is always the result of the interactions of multiple political, economic, social, historical, and cultural factors, and these must be taken into account in any analysis. Moreover, the quality of governance and the resilience of political, economic, and social institutions all mediate the relationship between environmental change and conflict in important ways. The influence of climate change and climate-related policy and program responses on instability and conflict can only be understood within this web of relationships.
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.
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Conflict: A Preliminary Review of the Issues
The consensus of climate scientists on the probable harmful effects of climate change and the need for climate adaptation has grown stronger in recent years. However, knowledge about the potential links between climate change and conflict, as well as the appropriate climate adaptation measures to prevent or mitigate conflict, remains limited and underdeveloped. This discussion paper provides an initial examination of climate change and climate adaptation, how and where climate change may be linked to conflict, and some of the implications of these linkages for development agencies.