Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide
November 20 2007
by the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
The Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Guide presents five years of experiences from more than thirty national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, in particular in developing countries. It relates the experiences of Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers all around the world trying to understand and address the risks of climate change.
The guide begins with the basics about climate change: the scientific consensus, the humanitarian consequences, and the general implications for the Red Cross and Red Crescent. This is followed by six thematic modules: Getting started, Dialogues, Communications, Disaster management, Community-based disaster risk reduction and Health. Each module begins with a background section with real-life Red Cross and Red Crescent experiences and perspectives, followed by a 'how-to' section with specific step-by-step guidance.
The 140-page guide is available in English, French and Arabic. Spanish and Russian will be available shortly.
Download the full guide 
(pdf, 5 MB).
To download in separate sections:
- Front page, foreword, acknowledgements, guide-to-the-guide, contents (pdf, 168 kB)
- Climate change: the basics (pdf, 560 kB)
- Getting started (pdf, 632 kB)
- Dialogues (pdf, 508 kB)
- Communications (pdf, 852 kB)
- Disaster management (pdf, 458 kB)
- Community risk reduction (pdf, 761 kB)
- Health and care (pdf, 371 kB)
- Case studies: Indonesia (pdf, 256 kB), Africa (pdf, 211 kB) and Nicaragua (pdf, 222 kB)
- Glossary (pdf, 43 kB), acronyms and sources (pdf, 33 kB)
- Annex: Regional impacts of climate change (pdf, 48 kB)
The Climate Guide contains the experiences of over thirty national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. Read more.