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Between 2021–2023, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced multiple initiatives, partnerships, and commitments to combat the climate crisis at COP 26, COP 27, and COP 28. This fact sheet reviews USAID’s progress to date in implementing those commitments.
Through these climate initiatives and partnerships, USAID is working side-by-side with partner countries and local organizations to build stronger infrastructure, expand access to clean energy, create more sustainable economies, improve natural resource management, and adapt to rising temperatures and more intense disasters. Since COP 26, USAID has worked with nearly 100 partner countries to meet the most urgent needs posed by the climate crisis, in alignment with the targets in USAID’s Climate Strategy. Key actions include:
- Partnering with more than 60 countries to build their resilience to climate impacts through the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE).
- Marshaling voluntary commitments worth more than $3 billion from private companies and partners that have already helped build climate resilience for more than 11.5 million people around the world through the PREPARE Call to Action, in collaboration with the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
- Preventing 706 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions across FY 2022 and 2023, equal to taking 60 percent of cars in the U.S. off the road for a year.
- Helping conserve, restore, or manage 82 million hectares of land like tropical forests—an area almost twice the size of California.
- Contributing to the installation of an estimated 111,000 megawatts of renewable capacity in our 48 clean energy focus countries from 2021–2023—around 10 percent of renewable capacity added worldwide in that time.
- Mobilizing more than $20 billion in outside public and private climate finance.
- Along with the Department of State, galvanizing over $2 billion in commitments from public and private sector partners under the US government-led Women in the Sustainable Economy (WISE) initiative.
Progress Highlights
Interagency Announcements and Initiatives
- President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE)
- Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate)
- Plan to Conserve Global Forests and USAID Target to Conserve 100 Million Hectares of Critical Landscapes
- Global Methane Pledge
- Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Tenure Pledge
- Women in the Sustainable Economy (WISE)
- U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis 2030 (PACC 2030)
Additional USAID Announcements and Initiatives
- USAID Climate Strategy:
- Mobilizing $150 Billion in Climate Finance by 2030
- Preventing Six Billion Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
- Country Support: Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
- Critical Populations: Global Action for Climate Equity
- Power Africa Supports Energy Transitions
- The Powering a Just Energy Transition Green Minerals Challenge (JET Minerals Challenge)
- Egyptian Red Sea Initiative
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Climate Change
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USAID plays a vital role in mitigating climate change and addressing its impacts by working with partner countries to implement ambitious emissions reduction measures, protect critical ecosystems, transition to renewable energy, build resilience against the impacts of climate change, and promote the flow of capital toward climate-positive investments.
USAID Climate Strategy 2022–2030
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USAID’s 2022–2030 Climate Strategy guides our whole-of-Agency approach to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, help partner countries build resilience to climate change, and improve our operations.
The President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience
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Co-led by the U.S. Department of State and USAID, and bringing together 20 departments and agencies, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) is the cornerstone of the U.S. government’s approach to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change by 2030.