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Global climate action is critical to sustainable development. The United States for International Development (USAID) works with our partners to accelerate equitable, resilient, and ambitious actions to address the climate crisis. In Tanzania, USAID prioritizes climate change programming across its portfolio. The governments of the United States and Tanzania address the drivers of climate change through mitigation and using adaptation to protect people and ecosystems from climate change impacts. From deforestation mitigation to food and water security, to livelihood adaptation strategies, USAID works with government and local partners to include development goals with climate smart actions.

Ongoing Activities

USAID’s Natural Resource Management portfolio integrates climate mitigation and adaptation activities as part of their execution of biodiversity protection conservation goals. Climate change threatens biodiversity through the accelerated loss and fragmentation of habitat and ecosystems. The protection of biodiversity necessarily increases resilience of ecosystems to climate change impacts in the following ways:


 * Land-use planning helps reduce deforestation. This reduces land-based carbon emissions, and conserves upstream forested watersheds and the water they provide. Land-use planning also preserves biodiversity which is key to adaptation and community resilience. Local land-use planning is supported across the USAID natural resource management portfolio in the Kigoma, Rukwa, Singida, Tabora, and Mbeya regions via the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) activity, Southern Highlands, and Ruaha-Katavi Protection Program (SHARPP), and the Usimamizi Endelevu wa Maliasili (“Resilient Natural Resources Governance”) activity. Climate Change - December 20221