A Closer Look at USAID’s Climate Strategy: Climate-Smart Development a Work in Progress

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest comprehensive synthesis of climate change research. The report concludes that “impacts from recent climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability.”

Climate change is not a sector unto itself, nor is it a sub-sector of the environment, but will touch on nearly every part of life
The impacts of climate-related extremes, the report continues, include disruption of food production and water supplies, damage to infrastructure and settlements, increased morbidity and mortality, and consequences for mental health and general well-being. “For countries at all levels of development,” the report states, “these impacts are consistent with a significant lack of preparedness for current climate variability.”

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