‘In 2024 we declare extreme heat a priority’
29 March 2024
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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Latest publications
NEW: The climate action journey
NEW: 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
Key findings related to loss and damage from the Working Group II report of the sixth IPCC assessment of the global climate
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“For some, a heatwave being 1.4 or 1.5°C hotter because of climate change might not sound like a big increase. But this additional heat would have been the difference between life and death for many people.” - Kiswendsida Guigma, @RCClimate
Carpenter Mamadou Bolozogola tells 'Le360 Afrique' Mar-April #heat, blamed on #climate change by @WWAttribution, worsened by outages & lack of commercial ice; @RCClimate's Kiswendsida Guigma tells @BBCWorld 1.5°C can make difference between life & death - http://bit.ly/49HGM92
Report
Loss and damage
An important development on the first day of the COP meeting came when delegates agreed on the operationalization of the loss and damage fund accepted in principle last year. The Climate Centre shortly afterwards published a summary of the latest findings on loss and damage from Working Group II.
The report was supported by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance and endorsed by technical experts on risk management from the Warsaw International Mechanism executive.
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