‘Climate change impacts us all, but it doesn’t do so equally’
27 June 2024
Events
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.
National Society heat story-book
Latest publications
NEW: Anticipatory action for climate-sensitive infectious diseases: Latin America regional assessment
Anticipatory action for climate-sensitive infectious diseases: East Africa regional assessment
The climate action journey
The importance of scaling up locally led adaptation
Climate funds and social protection: What is the progress to date?
Climate risk impacts on employment opportunities for youth in Pakistan
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The case study used to highlight why the vote should pass was from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi, where 100s died.
Great that CLARE-funded research project REPRESA is already having an impact - and far greater than just our focus countries of Malawi, Madagascar and Mozambique.
Sunrise at @ECMWF HQ in Reading, UK: Council of the 35 member-state organization votes to free up non-commercial use of best-available #data by met services & #humanitarian organizations, expected to facilitate @WMO goal of early warning for all - http://bit.ly/4cDV90A
Brief
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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