How can we more effectively integrate climate adaptation into urban planning to overcome persistent barriers to implementation?
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How can we more effectively integrate climate adaptation into urban planning to overcome persistent barriers to implementation?
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“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST). For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming. Thank you for your service”
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.
More concerning developments coming out of the US right now:
www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
#USAID #development
Great op-ed on the populist right and "climate change adaptation".
Let's be clear: Adaptation is not an alternative to mitigation! Adaptation means making communities climate-resilient, livable, and healthy for ALL and not for an imagined ethnically homogeneous society!
adelphi.de/en/opinion/h...
Here in the Philippines, we don’t have winter, but on the average, our roads can fit 4 cars at a time, our sidewalks can fit 1 person at a time (sometimes, half a person or non-existent), and our bike lanes are non-existent or also occupied by cars.
The highest GDP per capita alongside a murder rate 8x UK and 30x Japan. The social malaise that underlies US exceptionalism demonstrates lionising the targeting of economic growth takes our eyes off measuring the things that really matter. Sen Robert Kennedy knew all this in 1968.
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