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2024 virtual Climate and YOUth Summit
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2024 virtual Climate and YOUth Summit

Come to the 2024 virtual Climate and YOUth Summit (register) on 11 December! Organized by the IFRC, the American Red Cross and the Climate Centre, in partnership with the Norwegian Red Cross, it brings together young people from the Red Cross Red Crescent and other youth-led organizations (concept note). It will focus on youth-led innovations, projects and solutions, with real-time translation in Arabic, French and Spanish. Submit a  proposal (up to 12 November) here for or a 15-, 45- or 90-minute session and inspire others to take climate action. Watch this space for the full agenda shortly; contact Ana Mejia at youth@climatecentre.org with any questions.

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Proactive preparation is essential for humanitarians to help the most vulnerable people weather the effects of climate change.

Read how @UNCERF support for #AnticipatoryAction enables our partners to act ahead of disasters👉https://bit.ly/3x20grQ

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Important meeting between the @RCClimate and @PunainenRisti during the Red Cross Statutory meetings in Geneva. Discussion on cooperation in linking research, policy,
and practice. #rcrc24

.@WMO 2023 GHG bulletin: CO2 building up in atmosphere faster than ever; complementary @UNEP report on 'emissions gap' (likely reality vs Paris goals) says humanity risks temp. rise 'far above' Paris unless states deliver more than promised; pic, @NASA - http://bit.ly/3A3TrI0

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Climate action journey

The IFRC has now outlined the full seven-step climate action journey – summarized in English, French, Spanish and Arabic – that has been trialled by the National Societies of Malawi, Nigeria and Pakistan (photo) and encompasses climate-smart operations and, the end goal, locally led adaptation.

The first three steps were published in 2023 in A guide to climate-smart programmes (also in summary form); the last four – climate strategy, engagement with communities, locally-led adaptation, and implementation – are detailed now in a new brief, The importance of scaling up locally led adaptation, to be expanded later in 2024.

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