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Climate Risk Management at the Strategy Level

This page introduces the implementation of climate risk management (CRM) for strategy design and implementation. CRM is also implemented for projects and activities. Climate risk management (CRM) at the strategy level seeks to enhance the sustainability, resilience and impacts of USAID’s strategic development objectives while safeguarding US taxpayer dollars. To do this, climate risk screening early in strategy development allows USAID to assess, address and adaptively manage current and future climate risks and opportunities. For example, a strategy that envisions promoting agriculture-led economic growth as a pillar to support self-reliance may be at risk due to changing rainfall patterns or an increasing frequency of drought. By screening for climate risks early in strategy development, USAID ensures these risks are identified in time to be addressed and managed, as necessary. This prevents climate risks from undermining USAID’s development objectives, and thus supports the journey to self-reliance.
Map of lands that are part of CARPE's Congo Forest Basin Partnership
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Editor’s Pick: Geospatial Tools and Resources on Climatelinks

This month, Climatelinks is featuring geospatial tools and analysis. When it comes to climate change, geospatial tools and analysis provide innovative methods of visualizing drivers, threats and impacts. Emerging trends can also be identified and studied through geospatial analysis, which in turn allows for more strategic positioning of resources.
  • Stephan Hardeman
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RALI GHG MRV Harmonization Framework

Countries around the world have set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and are pursuing a breadth of mitigation actions across sectors and at all scales.
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Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Mara River Basin

The Mara River Basin is facing critical pressures from population growth, economic development, and the land use changes these bring, posing significant challenges for water resources management, livelihoods and wildlife.
Indian Red Cross Society gives out water in Bhubaneswar city.
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Understanding and Addressing the Risks of Extreme Heat on Human Health

Extreme heat is often referred to as a “silent killer.” Its impacts are not starkly visible like the destruction caused by a flood or hurricane, but it can be equally catastrophic. For example, a 2010 heat wave in Russia killed an estimated 55,000 people.
  • Joslin Isaacson
Workers in a forest gather grass.
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New USAID Ecosystem-based Adaptation Evidence Summary and Case Study Series

Finding ways to adapt to the effects of climate change is no longer optional for most communities - it is necessary. The question is, what are the range of strategies for adaptation? Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a nature-based and people-centered approach that emphasizes ecosystem integrity as crucial for human resilience to climate change.
  • Anila Jacob, Jennifer Kane, Christine Chumbler
Garcinia cochinchinensis flower
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Planting Interest in Ecotourism

Forests are our allies in the global fight against climate change. In addition to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing oxygen, forests also provide sustainable sources of income for forest communities and contribute to water security, which is the foundation for food security.
  • Winrock International