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Heat action day 2024
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Heat action day 2024

National Societies worldwide (left, Honduras) marked global heat action day 2024 with a huge array of activities, centred on urban art as a platform for raising awareness of the dangers of the “silent killer” of climate change: extreme heat. The Climate Centre commissioned artists Andrew Rae and Ruskin Kyle to create images depicting the impact of heatwaves on urban areas.

The climate crisis is “turning up the heat around the world,” the IFRC said on social media for 2 June, while calling on officials and leaders particularly in cities to make proactive plans to #BeatTheHeat.

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This second IFRC-DREF allocation raises the total granted to kickstart the Nigeria Floods Emergency Appeal to CHF 1,000,000.

The Emergency Appeal aims to support the Nigerian Red Cross Society reach up to 400,000 people affected by the floods.

Thank you to all IFRC-DREF donors!

Lokalna społeczność, żołnierze, mnóstwo ochotników... w tym nasza Grupa Wsparcia Humanitarnego PCK Zielona Góra do późnych godzin wieczornych działała, by wzmocnić wały w Starej Wsi. ❤️
Jesteśmy i będziemy tam, gdzie jesteśmy potrzebni! 💪❤

#NaRatunekPowódź #ratunek #powódź

.@IFRCAfrica press release y'day: With emergency appeals issued for Chad, Niger, Nigeria, @MukhieOmer says destructive floods across W and C Africa are measure of damage climate change is doing in Africa; pic, @CroixRougeTchad vols working near N’Djamena - http://bit.ly/4eu8pp7

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Climate action journey

The IFRC has now outlined the full seven-step climate action journey – summarized in English, French, Spanish and Arabic – that has been trialled by the National Societies of Malawi, Nigeria and Pakistan (photo) and encompasses climate-smart operations and, the end goal, locally led adaptation.

The first three steps were published in 2023 in A guide to climate-smart programmes (also in summary form); the last four – climate strategy, engagement with communities, locally-led adaptation, and implementation – are detailed now in a new brief, The importance of scaling up locally led adaptation, to be expanded later in 2024.

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