On April 4, 2014 Nine Academy participants screened their digital stories. In this video, Nine Community Producer Lea Braff explores a Red Cross Disaster Action Team. By pulling back the curtain of this globally reaching humanitarian organization, we catch a glimpse of the methods and procedures of the staff and volunteers of this important life […]
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IPCC Fifth Assessment Report – Working Group II – Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Read More »
The changing climate is threatening urban and rural Malawi. High school students collaborated with the Malawi Red Cross, and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre intern Mehdi Comeau to make this video to raise awareness about what is happening, and what we can do about it. More information: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/cl… & http://www.climatecentre.org
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Adaptation scientist and policy advisor, Ian Burton, talks about the difference between mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Website: http://climatechangeatlantic.com/
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Disaster Preparedness Response in rural Communities.
Trinidad & Tobago Red Cross Society – Community Disaster Response Read More »
On July 16, as part of the Mobile Economy Project, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a discussion on mobile technology and its evolving role in disaster and public safety. Read the related paper here: http://goo.gl/puXmU
This short film captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013 and co-hosted by Mistra Urban Futures Cape Town platform’s Climate Change Think Tank, a partnership within the Knowledge Transfer Programme. Members of the partnership include The University of Cape Town’s African Climate and Development
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An overview of the activities of Climate-KIC – the EU’s main climate innovation inititive.http://www.climate-kic.org
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Location: Kriva Palanka, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.In November 2012, the Red Cross of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia helped facilitate a group of community members and volunteers in Kriva Palanka to produce a participatory video to highlight their work with communities on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and preparedness. The community producers conducted
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Video that explains the relationship between vulnerabilty and climate change.
What is vulnerability and how do we adapt to climate change? Read More »