Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Guidance material

While the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) is already addressing risks brought by climate change, it can do more and better through a more systematic and coordinated integration of climate change issues into its programme...
Awareness material

This leaflet presents key messages and facts on hunger in the context of World Food Day in 2010. It also describes the links between hunger and climate change and risks for food security in a changing climate. Finally, the leaflet details what Nation...
Case Study

‘Early Warning Early Action’ that encompasses scientific advances from climate research and experience with risk reduction now offers the best hope of making humanitarian action in Africa more timely and effective, says the Red Cross Red Crescent...
Case Study

Since 2006, local communities in the northeast of Syria have been facing severe drought, due to high temperatures and low rainfall. The drought has led to desertification, as the dry conditions and sandstorms have swallowed up arable land and veget...
Case Study

Pacific countries are considered amongst the worlds’ most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Many of the inhabited atolls are very narrow and low lying, bordered on either side by lagoons or the open ocean. In response, the Pacific climat...
Guidance material

This guide aims to support National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ engagement on national level policy discussions regarding climate change adaptation, particularly through the development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) by their res...
Case Study

The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia, PMI) is working with communities to help them understand the basic science of climate change and use this knowledge to adapt to the consequent changing weather and nature of disasters. PMI has listene...
Awareness material

The Asia Pacific zone covers 45 countries and 57% of all the disasters in the Asia Pacific are hydro-metrological in nature. Increasing climate risk threatens hard-earned development gains. A strategy for dealing with this is to better understand and...
Case Study

Bangladesh is not only vulnerable to rising sea levels, but is also one of the most flood and cyclone prone countries in the world with 25 percent of its geographical area vulnerable. The floods and cyclones not only disrupt and take lives, but als...