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Climatelinks 2024 Year in Review: Resources You May Have Missed
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Tue, 12/03/2024 – 15:14
Climatelinks’ resource library curates and archives technical guidance and knowledge related to USAID’s work at the intersection of climate and development. Climatelinks published more than 100 resources this year. Here are a few resources you may have missed in 2024:
Hydrogen Considerations Tree Executive Deck
There is a growing need from Missions and country partners to respond to requests related to hydrogen in the energy sector, including questions about its costs, benefits, and tradeoffs. This “considerations tree” can help stakeholders think through the technical, regulatory, economic, environmental, social, and analytical questions that arise when considering support for hydrogen and its derivatives.
Climate Information Services in Ethiopia – A Key Resilience Capacity for Households and Businesses
Timely access to climate information services can play a key role in enabling producers to manage their livelihoods in the face of uncertainty and mitigate the impact of shocks, but these systems are largely absent in the lowlands of Ethiopia. This learning brief describes how locally driven services for climate and early warning information are being implemented in the region, the impact this is having in terms of household-level decision making, and the challenges of achieving long-term sustainability of these systems.
Floods, Droughts, and Water Security: How is Water Data Critical to Climate Resilience?
Extreme weather events like floods can wash away homes and critical infrastructure and increase the spread of waterborne diseases. On the other hand, droughts can disrupt food systems and food security by resulting in crop failures and livestock die offs. This webinar explored how USAID and NASA are working with partners to use weather and water data for improved climate resilience.
Climate-Resilient Biodiversity Programming Stocktaking
Measuring Impact II helped USAID review 111 activities over the last 10 years to understand how the Agency’s biodiversity programming is already addressing climate impacts, and to identify practices that can be improved for greater impact. This slide deck presents the results of this stocktaking activity.
Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services in Support of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: An Evidence Review
Agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) provided by public, private, and civil society organizations play a crucial role in promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation at scale. This evidence review analyzed over 500 journal articles and other documents and recommended measures to enhance the contribution of EAS to the climate field.
Do you have a resource you think belongs on Climatelinks? We would love to hear from you! Submit your resource to the Climatelinks team or email us to discuss next steps.
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Climatelinks’ resource library curates and archives technical guidance and knowledge related to USAID’s work at the intersection of climate and development. Climatelinks published more than 100 resources in 2024. Here are a few you may have missed.
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by Komoneed | Dec 11, 2024
New Climate Risk Profiles Available to Help Missions Strengthen Resilience
jschoshinski
Tue, 12/10/2024 – 19:06
As 2024 comes to a close, countries around the world are experiencing the impacts of climate change. Shifting rainfall patterns, rising temperatures and sea levels, and receding glaciers are creating cascading impacts on people, food systems, ecosystems, and economic structures.
In the past year, climate change has intensified extreme weather events like record-breaking floods in southern Brazil and the Sahara. The impacts of these climate stressors are not distributed equally across all populations, geographies, and sectors. As climate variability and change accelerate, the past no longer provides a reliable indication of what the future will bring.
To combat this uncertainty, USAID is updating its country-level climate risk profiles (CRPs) to improve climate risk management and support adaptation and resilience efforts. Climate risk is one of many factors Missions consider when making programming decisions. The Agency’s climate risk management process enables Missions to proceed with programming despite high climate risks by enhancing situational awareness to achieve the best development outcomes.
How can USAID use Climate Risk Profiles?
CRPs are a tool for USAID Missions and operating units to understand how climate stressors may affect countries’ economies, populations, and resources. The profiles help guide strategic planning processes, including by:
Supporting the development of Country Development Cooperation Strategies by indicating priority areas for addressing climate impacts;
Serving as a resource for implementing USAID’s climate risk management process during activity design and implementation;
Helping Missions achieve the Agency’s resilience targets; and,
Advancing U.S. Government efforts to help countries and communities adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.
CRPs provide an overview of current and projected climate stressors based on an intermediate emissions scenario. The profiles further illustrate climate risks to specific sectors and critical groups, acknowledging local populations’ unique skills and knowledge in addressing climate risks. These considerations can guide program design and shape investments to maximize value by ensuring relevance and impact under a changing climate.
What’s new in the 2024 update?
The 2024 CRPs recognize that climate impacts disproportionately affect overburdened and underserved communities, which can include women, children, Indigenous Peoples, and persons living with disabilities. Also new to the CRPs is an overview of climate finance, capturing high-level information on adaptation investments to help Missions better understand the finance landscape and identify gaps and opportunities to target investments. Finally, the updated CRPs include visual depictions of projected climate changes and associated impacts overlaid across country maps.
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Example of a new map from the Uzbekistan Climate Risk Profile.
Photo Credit: USAID Climate Adaptation Support Activity
What’s next?
USAID released the first updated CRP earlier this year: Ethiopia. In addition to the sections outlined above, this CRP explores how climate change is projected to impact key agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources, and human health.
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A table summarizing key sector impacts from the Ethiopia Climate Risk Profile.
Photo Credit: USAID Climate Adaptation Support Activity
USAID also published four additional Climate Risk Profiles in 2024: Libya, Uzbekistan, Jamaica, and the Philippines. These profiles explore additional sectors, including tourism, infrastructure, clean energy, urban and coastal zones, One Health, education, and ecosystems.
These newly released CRPs, which were developed by the USAID Climate Adaptation Support Activity (CASA), will be followed by dozens more over the next few months.
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USAID is updating its country-level climate risk profiles to improve climate risk management and support adaptation and resilience efforts.
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Tue, 12/10/2024 – 12:00
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Hannah Blair
Anna L. Brown
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Adaptation
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Global
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Adaptation
Climate Finance
Climate Policy
Climate Risk Management
Climate Strategy
Disaster Risk Management
Inclusive Development
Gender and Social Inclusion
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Resilience
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Ethiopia
Jamaica
Philippines
Uzbekistan
Libya
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Adaptation
Climate
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Climate Adaptation Support Activity (CASA)
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