Climate-Resilient International Development
Headline: Agencies Must Integrate Climate Resilience into International Development
What it does: Agencies must incorporate climate-resilience considerations into all U.S. international development strategies, programs, projects, investments, and overseas facility planning.
- Requires climate-risk screening for international development project decisions and investments.
- Creates an interagency Working Group to develop tools, guidelines, and metrics.
- Directs agencies to share data and help vulnerable countries plan for impacts.
Summary
This order requires all U.S. agencies involved in overseas development to factor climate-change risks into their decisions and programs. It directs agencies to assess vulnerabilities, adjust projects and investments, share data and tools, and work with multilateral partners.
A new Working Group, co-chaired by the Treasury Secretary and the USAID Administrator, will create guidelines, identify needed data and tools, and set reporting metrics on a two-year implementation timeline to protect U.S. development investments and help vulnerable countries plan for climate impacts.
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