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President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience

President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience

Climate Change
Policy
2021
Year of publication
2021
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Displacement
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Generic references to climate climate change
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Sub-region
Northern America
Region
Northern America
Macro-region
Americas
Author/issuing body
The White House
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse driversGCM Objective 23 - International cooperation
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

This whole-of-government approach is designed to build capacity in developing countries to better prepare for and respond to the ways that climate change undermines food, water, and economic security, as well as to the secondary effects of climate change that include displacement, loss of livelihoods, weakened governments, and in some cases political instability and conflict.

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*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).