US Pledges $2 Million for Climate Resilience in Drought-Stricken Morocco

The Biden administration plans to allocate up to $2 million in federal funds to a green energy initiative in Morocco, reports Washington Examiner, noting that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the main development aid agencies, aims to strengthen resilience to the impacts of climate change in Morocco, with a focus on women and girls, as indicated in the grant documents.

In these documents, USAID stated that the climate problems facing Morocco had resulted in "intensifying water scarcity and drought, leading to low agricultural production, declining economic growth and social instability." Climate change "disproportionately affects people living below the poverty line," including "women, youth and other underrepresented populations who are often less resilient to climate shocks," the US agency stressed.

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USAID also calls on organizations to specify how they can engage with the Moroccan government after obtaining the federal grant for climate change. "The UN Secretary-General will no doubt be pleased to see millions of American taxpayer dollars funding the green program in Morocco, but the residents of East Palestine or small communities in our country certainly won’t," Daniel Turner, president of Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, told the American site.