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Awareness material

Linking hunger and climate change

07 May 2014
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...
Awareness material, Climate Change Adaptation, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Disasters needn’t be disastrous – African communities can adapt to climate extremes

07 May 2014
‘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, Climate Change Adaptation, Early Warning Systems
Case Study

Cultivating hope in Syria

07 May 2014
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, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

Pacific Red Cross Societies preparing for a changing climate

07 May 2014
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...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

How to engage with National Adaptation Plans: Guidance for National Societies

07 May 2014
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...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

Climate change adapation in Indonesia

07 May 2014
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...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Livelihoods and Food Security
Awareness material

Making climate information user friendly for humanitarian organizations

07 May 2014
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...
Awareness material, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

Climate Change Awareness, Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction, A Bangladesh Case Study

07 May 2014
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...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone
Case Study

Tuvalu: Joining forces to tackle climate change

07 May 2014
Tuvalu is a remote island nation often associated with the rising impacts of climate change. If, as predicted, sea levels continue to rise, this string of low-lying islands in the south-west Pacific could gradually disappear. However, life must go on...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

Preparing for Climate Change in Viet Nam

07 May 2014
Viet Nam has always suffered from extreme weather events. Because of climate change, it is likely that droughts will occur more often, and that tropical cyclones will also become more intense. In 2003, the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRCS) became o...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone

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