CRS Report: 'Climate Change Risk Mitigation by U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies'

Interesting to see what we are doing overseas vis-a-vis climate change risk mitigation. CRS experts Nick M. Brown and Emily M. Morgenstern enlighten us as to what USAID, Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) are doing: Climate Change Risk Mitigation by U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies (29 October 2020).

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Summary
Many in Congress have a keen interest in climate change, and determining how best to address that issue is a source of continuing discussion. Gaining increased attention in such discussions are federal efforts to reduce the risks of a changing climate by planning for and adapting to projected climate change, both in federal agency operations and in achieving agencies’ respective missions. 

Specifically, U.S. foreign assistance agencies—the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)—are considering how climate change may affect both overseas programming and internal operations. For example, USAID requires climate assessments at each stage of its program cycle to help ensure that potential climate change or variability does not put development gains at risk. The Peace Corps considers how climate change may affect volunteers’ physical safety.

Congress provides funding for and conducts oversight of the foreign assistance agencies’ efforts to mitigate the risk of climate change primarily through annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations measures. Some Members in the 116th Congress have introduced legislation that would codify certain aspects of this work. Although some recent legislation has been considered and passed by one chamber, no stand-alone legislation has been enacted. Congress may consider what role it will play, if any, in supporting or directing agency efforts to mitigate the risk of climate change in the future.

Charity begins at home, right?

Enjoy!

"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

Comments

[EJ Hanford, PhD.]

Yes!!! ADAPTATION to climatic conditions (be they short-term or long-term)!!
Such wanton hubris to think that humans control the climate....and even worse to think that humans should "fix" what is NOT broken.
Just think how much money is being wasted on research and attempts by humans to alter the climate!!