Climate-Resilient International Development

Impact dates

1. Date TBD

   Working Group annual progress analysis and recommendations

2. Date TBD

   Working Group establishes 2-year implementation timeline with 6-month intervals

3. Sep 23, 2015

   National Security Council convenes relevant agencies to explore further mitigation opportunities and develop recommendations

Key directives

• Agencies shall incorporate climate-resilience considerations into all international development strategies, planning, programming, investments, and funding decisions
• Working Group co-chaired by Secretary of Treasury and USAID Administrator to develop guidelines for climate-risk integration
• Working Group shall establish 2-year timeline with 6-month intervals for implementation
• Working Group shall analyze Federal Government progress at least annually
• Agencies shall report progress through Federal Agency Planning process under EO 13653
• National Security Council shall convene relevant agencies within 1 year to explore further mitigation opportunities
• Agencies shall collaborate to identify and develop climate data, decision-support tools, and information
• U.S. representatives in multilateral entities shall encourage climate-resilience integration in those institutions

Who is ordered

• Secretary of the Treasury · Treasury
• USAID Administrator · USAID
• National Security Council · Executive Office of the President
• Director of the Office of Management and Budget · Office of Management and Budget
• Council on Environmental Quality · CEQ
• Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy · OSTP
• Secretary of State · State
• Secretary of Agriculture · Department of Agriculture
• Secretary of the Interior · Interior
• Secretary of Energy · Energy
• Director of National Intelligence · ODNI
• Millennium Challenge Corporation · MCC
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation · OPIC
• United States Trade and Development Agency · USTDA
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Commerce
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NASA
• United States Global Change Research Program · USGCRP

Timeline

Risks & tensions

• Implementation contingent on 'availability of appropriations' (Sec. 8(b)), creating funding uncertainty
• Multiple 'as appropriate' and 'to the extent permitted by law' qualifiers may dilute enforcement
• Coordination burden across numerous agencies (State, Treasury, USAID, MCC, OPIC, etc.) with potentially competing priorities
• Metrics development (Sec. 4(b)(i)(G)) is prerequisite for meaningful reporting but timeline unspecified
• Multilateral entity influence depends on U.S. leverage in those institutions, which varies