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Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk-The Massive Costs of Gutting USAID

by Alice Hill and Lindsey Doyle

Image: After Hurricanes Eta and Iota in La Lima, Honduras, December 2020, Jose Cabezas / Reuters

This article explains how the long-term climate-related effects of cutting USAID are real in terms of actual dollar costs to countries, as well as other impacts, such as increased irregular migration, climate risks, endangered supply chains, humanitarian spending, and more.

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