The Red Cross and Red Crescent climate guide

M. Van Aalst;M. Helmer;C. de Jong;et al. / Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2007

The Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Guide puts forward experiences of more than forty National Societies who in the last five years have started to address climate change in their work. The guide ...

Community level adaptation to climate change: the potential role of participatory community risk assessment

M. Van Aalst;T. Cannon;I. Burton / Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008

Community Risk Assessment (CRA) refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities in support of community-based disaster risk reduction, used by many NGOs, community-ba...

Long-term food security: investing in people and livelihoods: five-year strategic framework on food security for Africa 2008–2012

Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008

Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve a single Millennium Development Goal, and is the only region in the world where malnutrition – an outcome of food insecurity – is not decli...

A climate of change in Samoa

Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2006

This briefing paper details how the Samoa Red Cross Society is seeking to reduce the vulnerability of the local community to climate change - weather records show that there has been a steady ...

Preparing for climate change in Vietnam

Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2007

Vietnam has always suffered from extreme weather events – typhoons; sea surges; heavy rains and drought. As climate change will only aggravate such adverse conditions, the Vietnam Red Cross s...

The Red Cross / Red Crescent climate guide

Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2007

Climate change presents additional challenges for humanitarian organisations responding to disasters and complex emergencies. This guide provides a basic overview of climate change science and its ...