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Climate action journey
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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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'Rising risk of extreme heat is among most pressing challenges of the #ClimateCrisis', says @JArrighi, responding to @CopernicusEU @WMO #Europe #climate report 2023; file pic, @RdecikrizSLO volunteers advise truckers on dealing with heat in traffic jams - http://bit.ly/3Qf8pQ5

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the @WMO released the 2023 European State of the Climate report today.

https://wmo.int/media/news/europe-experiences-widespread-flooding-and-severe-heatwaves-2023?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=News&utm_campaign=News&utm_id=News

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Loss and damage

An important development on the first day of the COP meeting came when delegates agreed on the operationalization of the loss and damage fund accepted in principle last year. The Climate Centre shortly afterwards published a summary of the latest findings on loss and damage from Working Group II.

The report was supported by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance and endorsed by technical experts on risk management from the Warsaw International Mechanism executive.

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